How do I join the Sakai or OSPortfolio community?

Short version:

http://collab.sakaiproject.org/

Long version:

If you're tinkering with Sakai or its Electronic Portfolio "Open Source Portfolio (OSP)" you might have questions -- or you might find yourself wanting to contribute back to the community (documentation, quality-assurance testing, project management, java or XML coding...)

There are many different working-groups (and discussion-groups) within the Sakai community, and they're all hosted at collab.sakaiproject.org:

1. Browse to http://collab.sakaiproject.org/
2. Along the left margin there's a "New Account" button. Create a login for yourself, and be sure you include your email address.

And zoom, "collab" will email you a confirmation email. Once you've received it, you can noodle around the website:

1. Log in at collab.sakaiproject.org using your new credentials
2. Click "Memberships" along the left edge
3. Browse "Joinable Sites" and click the ones you're interested in (eg, Project: Portfolio is the OSP group)
4. Visit those "worksites" and check out the tools along the left edge -- notably "email archive"

Back in your very own "My Workspace" under "Preferences" (along the left edge, again) you can configure how you want your email deliveries -- each one at a time, or all in one group as a "digest" once per day...

Then you can post emails to any of those work-groups you 'joined' (the email address for each group is on the first page you see when you 'open' that worksite) and begin collaborating!