At the Canada Moodlemoot 2009 in Edmonton, Alberta, I gave a presentation entitled "Ranching Killer Zombie Robots: Lessons Learned".

Here's a post I made to the sakai-dg-ui list in response to a thread about using some fairly "heavyweight" design processes:

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I agree with Kathy about being careful not to set artificially high barriers to entry wrt improving Sakai UI/design.

There have been a few interesting threads on sakai-dev recently; today's post is an email I sent responding to a thread about establishing a "Sakai code convention".... (Sorry, I had to turn off anonymous comments after a recent upgrade broke the captcha module.)

Here's the body of an email that some of you will see on sakai-dev; I tried to provide a few ideas on how to include the bigger picture when making technology decisions, as well as some suggestions with respect to a community roadmap and supporting process:

Does your Firefox searchbar complain that it has not had a chance to contribute to the greater Sakai good?

Has your Firefox searchbar been bugging you to throw out those search plugins you don't use, to make control-e your friend, and to add a few Sakai-friendly search icons to its daily life?