Ian Dolphin Executive Director at Apereo Foundation
Mr. Dolphin has led organizational and technology projects to improve post secondary education in the United Kingdom and played a leading role in collaboration with Australia, New Zealand and the United States. He joins the Sakai Foundation at a time when Sakai is experiencing unprecedented growth in adoption, investment and new product development. Executive Director at Sakai Foundation.
Joseph Hardin Ex-Director, Collaborative Technologies Lab
Joseph was the Chairman of the Board for the Sakai Project, where the University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, the uPortal Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) joined forces to integrate and synchronize their considerable educational software into a modular, pre-integrated collection of open source tools. He was Associate Director of Software Development at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois-UC. He was also a founder and board member of the International World Wide Web Conference Committee.
Charles Severance University of Michigan, IMS Global Learning Consortium
Charles is a Clinical Associate Professor and teaches in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He also works for Blackboard as Sakai Chief Strategist. He also works with the IMS Global Learning Consortium promoting and developing standards for teaching and learning technology. Previously he was the Executive Director of the Sakai Foundation and the Chief Architect of the Sakai Project. MOOCS pioner in Coursera.
Adam Marshall Oxford University
Adam Marshal, is the Weblearn director at Oxford University, works in the Mobile Phone interface to Sakai(Enlace) project, delivering Sakai (WebLearn) via Mobile Oxford using Sakai's Entity Broker interface & oAuth autentication, and Integration of Sakai CLE with Internet2 Grouper, Using Grouper as a provider; storing lists of site participants and internal site groups in Grouper.
Beth Kirschner University of Michigan, Sakai TCC
Beth Kirschner has been involved with Sakai for many years, developing collaborative technologies for teaching and learning, managing the University of Michigan's development of Sakai, leading localization and internationalization efforts and implementing new Sakai development and integrations from the University of Michigan.
Aaron Zecoski Software architect/engineer specializing in e-learning web applications
Aaron Zeckoski is internationally recognized for his expertise in the Sakai open source collaborative learning environment. His experience includes work in university teams, commercial teams, and as an independent consultant. He is a major contributor to projects such as the Sakai CLE/OAE, DSpace repository, and Opencast Matterhorn. He is an active member of the Sakai CLE Team and Sakai 2 Technical Coordination Committee (TCC).
Nicolaas Matthijs Sakai OAE Project Lead
Nicolaas is an experienced front-end engineer and a long time Open Source and Sakai contributor. He is currently the Sakai OAE project lead, having previously been the project's UI development and design lead. Nicolaas has a strong interest in user-centered design, and attempts to apply this to Sakai OAE as much as possible. Nicolaas is excited about the opportunities that simplistic design and cloud architecture can bring to educational applications, principles that are actively being pursued by the OAE project.
Janice Smith Three Canoes consultant, Open Source Portfolio Sakai
Janice Smith helps higher education and K-12 institutions become self-sufficient in using Sakai and the Open Source Portfolio (OSP) for teaching, learning, and assessment. Three Canoes are fellow educators with years of experience and have been a part of the Sakai and OSP communities since their inception.
Alfredo Arnaud Bobadilla. Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
He is envolved in training and retraining process of teachers since ten years ago. Actually he is working with Sakai at Science Faculty, UNAM and making a develop program for distance education.
Diego de Blanco Open Source Portfolio Sakai
Diego del Blanco Orobitg started with e-learning since 2000. En 2001 He was in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia with Sakai. In 2008 started Samoo, until march of 213 where worked with Sakai, Complutense de Madrid, The Javeriana de Bogotá and the Pontificia de Chile. He actually works as responsable of LATAM in the Apereo Foundation with the starter of a new project that will use Sakai as base.
Nicola Monat-Jacobs
Nicola Monat-Jacobs is a Senior Technical Manager at The Longsight Group. Longsight is a Sakai Commercial Affiliate and provides hosting, development, support and training for Sakai and other Open Source products. Nicola is a developer and project manager for Longsight's Sakai clients.
Rafael Morales Gamboa. Universidad de Guadalajara
Started his academic career at UNAM (Faculty of Science), firstly as a teacher assistant, later as a teacher, and finally as system administrator. Later, he worked as system administrator at the Centre for Research on Marine Sciences of the National Polytechnic Institute. After finishing his master studies, entered to the (Mexican) Electric Power Research Institute as a researcher, where worked before and after my doctoral studies. Later on, worked for the European project LeActiveMath, first at Northumbria University at Newcastle upon Tyne (England) and later at the University of Glasgow (Scotland). Then returned to Mexico to work as a researcher at the University of Guadalajara.