lydiali / sakai

Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community.

Sakai CLE

This is the source code for the Sakai CLE.

Building

To build Sakai you need Java 1.7 and Maven 3.2. Once you have clone a copy of this repository you can build it by running:

mvn install

Running

Sakai runs on Apache Tomcat 7. Download the latest version from http://tomcat.apache.org and extract the archive. Note: Sakai does not work with Tomcat installed via a package from apt-get, yum or other package managers.

You must configure Tomcat according to the instructions on this page: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/BOOT/Install+Tomcat+7

When you are done, deploy Sakai to Tomcat:

mvn clean install sakai:deploy -Dmaven.tomcat.home=/path/to/your/tomcat

Now start Tomcat:

cd /path/to/your/tomcat/bin
./startup.sh && tail -f ../logs.catalina.out

Once Sakai has started up (it usually takes around 30 seconds), open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8080/portal

Licensing

Sakai is licensed under the Educational Community License version 2.0

Sakai is an Apereo Foundation project and follows the Foundation's guidelines and requirements for Contributor License Agreements.

Contributing

To contribute to the Sakai project please follow the workflow on: https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Git+Setup

Bugs

For filing bugs against Sakai please use our Jira instance: https://jira.sakaiproject.org/

Nightly servers

For testing out the latest builds go to the nightly server page

Get in touch

If you have any questions, please join the Sakai developer mailing list: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sakai-dev