Participants: Sue, Josh, Mary Miles, Emily, Salwa, Kelli, Anna Galka (Windsor), Lorie Stolarchuk (Windsor), Robin, Mathieu, Kate

Agenda Items

1. Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award

TWSIA09 Planning

Sponsorship: (plan here)

• Josh: rSmart accepted to sponsor at the support-level. w00t!
• Sue: Sungard, Elluminate: not sure yet.
• Charlie: Unicon, will join late.
• We have to think of the budgeting cycle next year.
• Sponsors will miss the Sakai Foundation press release if they don't come back to us before the VA tech event.
• Need to add rSmart, openedpractices on the flyer for VA Tech?

Form available on the 11th? Unlikely.

• Need to put info (rubrics, rules, etc.)
• Need a target date to start posting. Nov 24th or Dec 1.
• Josh will attach the rubric to Confluence and send an email to the list.
• Attach the rubric to the flyer? We need to revise it first...
• Make the rubric available, announce that the application process will be opened on Dec 1.
• Make a PDF available of all the questions. Emphasis on innovation.
• Sue will work on slides for Michael.
• Mathieu will update the OpenEdPractices site.
• Mathieu will help Sue update the flyer.
• Final version must be sent to Mary by noon on Friday.

Local Sakai awards: would be able to present at the Boston conf.

• Indiana, Windsor, Valencia, and Stanford have some initiatives under consideration.
• Link the local events to the international one?

Change contact info to Sue on OpenEdPractices.

Josh will confirm the judges for the press release.

2. VA Tech Regional Conference Follow-Up

http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/MGT/Virginia+Tech+Regional+Conference+2008

• Need for a conference space to dump material.
• 145 attendees are registered.

3. Showing Demo Courses

New references on that page: Showing Demo Courses

• We will follow-up on this later. Have a look at Robin's link.

4. Follow-up from EDUCAUSE

• Flyers were all distributed at the reception but 3 (Mary).