Contrib tools range in code size from small personal experiments to detailed and elegantly crafted large-scale team efforts. This section mentions some of the most usable tools in that spectrum.
Contrib is a place where good ideas from individual efforts can make an impact, and where complex projects mature. It is the Wild West, where you can add value to the Sakai offering. In general, the individuals who have given succor to the writing of this book are themselves not confined to a nine-to-five mentality. They have written significant parts of Contrib in personal time or spare hours, and based their efforts on a refreshingly unselfish perspective, typical of open source pioneers.
The variety of code includes enhanced tools to replace the already existing functionality, such as the forum or blog tool, or testing within Sakai, and the bridges for tight integration with external systems, such as LAMS (http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence...