Alan Berg

Was the Sakai Foundations Quality Assurance Director for two major software releases (Sakai 2.7, 2.8). Since 1998 Alan has also been the lead developer at the Central Computer Services at the University of Amsterdam. In his famously scarce spare time, he writes computer articles, book reviews and recently books.



Alan has a degree, two masters, and a teaching qualification. In previous incarnations, he was a technical writer, an Internet/Linux course writer OK a product line development officer, and a teacher. He likes to get his hands dirty with the building and gluing of systems. He remains agile by ruining various development environments with his proof of concepts that are better left in the darker shadows never to escape.



I won a Sakai Fellowship for work about automatically finding defects in software. Static code review was used as a basis for finding immediate issues.



I am currently member of the committee that steers the technical roadmap of Sakai CLE.



MAIN AUTHOR: Sakai Courseware Management - The official Guide



The book was a large effort, which I also coordinated, spanning the whole of my Sakai fellowship year. It was written with the aid of the Sakai community with approximately half the words written by myself.



I am also currently coordinating the completion of the 2nd Edition of the book, which should be published within the coming months.



RESOURCES



The Sakai Foundation

Sakai Book

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