The Apereo Fellows Program celebrates the many volunteer contributors who make Apereo Software Communities successful. The Foundation is pleased to announce the 2018 Apereo Follows.
Shawn Foster
Shawn is an eLearning Technology Specialist at Western University (Canada). As a member of the central eLearning Technology team at Western, Shawn works closely with local Sakai developers, eLearning groups, and central technology teams to improve Sakai for Western and for the Sakai community. Shawn has worked with Sakai since 2011 and is a member of the Sakai PMC. He enjoys collaborating with the Sakai community on regular community calls, at annual conferences, and through various community projects. Shawn is passionate about user interfaces and usability, and is always looking to improve Sakai.
Michelle Hall
Luisa Li
Luisa has been an avid member and advocate of Apereo since she joined Marist College (USA) as an instructional designer in 2012. She led the working group of the Lessons Enhancement Project, served as the chair of the Apereo Teaching and Learning Awards, 2015-2018, and has been participating in many other sub-groups, projects and events. Her favorite part of the Apereo community is to collaborate with Sakaigers around the globe in order to share best practices and innovate teaching and learning using various educational technologies. Luisa recently returned to her homeland China and embarked on a new adventure to engage more Sakaigers in China.
Rüdiger Rolf
Rüdiger works in the eLearning department of the University of Osnabrück (Germany) as a project manager and software developer. He is part of the Opencast project since the beginning in 2008 and is a member of the Opencast board (2010 to present). He manages the German-speaking community activities, including bi-monthly web-meetings and a workshop each year. He hosted the Opencast Summit 2013 in Osnabrück and was part of the conference committee in all following Opencast Summits.
Tiffany Stull
Tiffany is a Sakai User Support Specialist at the University of Virginia (USA). After completing her PhD in French, she joined the UVACollab team in November 2014 and the Sakai community in 2015, initially participating in the Sakai Accessibility Working Group. She has continued to participate actively in the Accessibility Working Group and accepted the role of chair of the group in November 2017. Tiffany also actively engages with the Sakai mailing lists and chat discussions in Slack, focusing on the Tests & Quizzes and Forums tools and accessibility. She contributes Help content to the Sakai Documentation Working Group, and occasionally does QA testing. Following discussions regarding Tests & Quizzes issues at Open Apereo 2017, she began a weekly triage of Samigo Jira tickets in order to organize and prioritize reported issues; over 100 issues were reviewed as a result of these efforts.
Tim Vertein
Tim first joined the Apereo community in 2013. He is part of the MyUW Team at his Alma Mater, the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), a flagship uPortal implementation. Tim is a regular presenter at Open Apereo and contributes to projects in the uPortal ecosystem. He has also sat on Open Apereo planning committees and helped host uPortal Developer Days. He is grateful to be selected as an Apereo Fellow and looks forward to the exciting future of uPortal.
Author
Ian Dolphin
We thank to the 2018 Apereo Fellows Committee for the hard work in making these selections!
Committee Members
Matt Clare (Fellow, 2016)
Wilma Hodges (Fellow 2016)
Matt Jones (Fellow, 2013)
Laura McCord (Fellow, 2013)
Janice Smith (Fellow, 2009)
Anthony Whyte, chair (Fellow, 2014)Ian Dolphin, Executive Director