Installing Sakai

Ok, the facts:

1. Sakai is VERY HARD to install, too many versions, poor documentation, and nobody doing something to ease the process.
2. Sakai has a lot of engineering time spent on its architecture so it has features and is able to scale like no other open source LMS.
3. Apache's Lucene is a great solution for what i want to do, it parses documents and even create the TFIDF vectors, so i want it.
4. We have to convince some teachers about letting us use the data from essays that their students has uploaded to the course site. So we need an LMS.
5. Lucene is already integrated with Sakai, i.e. I have to use it....

I promise that if a have the time during my research to do something for all the people that has to live the nightmare of installing Sakai and making it work.... I'll do it.

Starting my Ph.D.

Ok, I'm starting this posts as a way of keep a log of the thoughts and things that are already happening to me during my attempt to get a Ph.D. from the Uni of Sydney.
I already have my first two tasks:

1. Use the copy machine to get 10 copies of a chapter about "How to write a decent thesis" and another 10 copies of a form called "What do you think your advisor is useful for"
2. Build a prototype of a Text Mining Service to integrate with an LMS by July, so we can test it on the second semester and then try to convince some teachers to use it and get a whole bunch of data to work with.

To be honest, by the time I'm writing this, I already finished the first task. It wasn't so hard, but believe me, the copy machine can be sometimes a little more complicated than an Artificial Intelligence algorithm.