Thanks, Nicolaas. This is very helpful. Harry On Sep 16, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Nicolaas Matthijs <nicolaas.matth...@caret.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Harry, > > Part of the reason for setting up the production environment that's currently > shared between Marist College, Georgia Tech, Cambridge University and the > American Academic of Religion is that we want the roadmap and features to be > informed and driven by real usage by real end-users. As usage on this > production environment is only just getting started, there's not a very firm > or fixed roadmap yet. > > Next to being end-user driven, we also want to make sure that features are > completely finished and tested in production, rather than adding too many > half-baked features on top of each other. > > I can provide a bit more information on the different items that are > currently in development or under review: > > Push notifications, allowing for updates (new activities, new comments, etc.) > to be pushed back to the browser of a user looking at them, taking away the > need to refresh the page in order to see that something has changed. This is > driven by real usage, where it turns out that the collaborative nature of the > system makes this a real necessity. > Following, allowing for users to follow each other and see activities, > permissions permitting, of those users in their personal activity feed. > A number of front-end unit tests and automated functional tests > User management through the admin UI, allowing for users to be managed, > edited, created, reset passwords, etc. and allowing for tenant support staff > to provide better end-user support. > Creation of a new preview processor for PDFs and Office files that converts > items to HTML instead of images, providing a major accessibility and search > win. This also opens up the ability to do annotations on uploaded files. > Content metadata widget, providing a place where content can be downloaded, > the description can be seen, etc. > Responsive design allowing for the OAE UI to be used more effectively on > mobile devices. > Integration with video platforms, allowing for videos to be transcoded and > streamed through the OAE UI. > > In terms of next priorities, it is very likely that there will be an emphasis > on the areas of collections/folders and profiles, although that obviously > still needs to be informed by usage. > > Having said all of this, OAE is an Open Source platform and allows for easy > extensions and/or contributions on the the UI and back-end side of things. We > are very keen for these types of project contributions to grow, so there's > nothing stopping a very specific feature from becoming available through this > route. > > Hope that helps, > Nicolaas > > > On 11 Sep 2013, at 16:55, Harry Wang <harryjw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> After playing with the demo OAE system at >> https://oae.oae-qa0.oaeproject.org/, I think two features are very useful >> but missing so far: >> >> 1. folders in library - or other ways to organize files in library >> 2. pages function as in the previous OAE, which you can use to organize >> contents >> >> I know the current v1.2 is still a early version but greatly appreciate if >> anyone can share the roadmap of future features, e.g. what are key features >> to be released soon and scheduled for future releases. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Harry >> _______________________________________________ >> oae-dev mailing list >> oae-dev@collab.sakaiproject.org >> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/oae-dev >
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