[Announcements] Jasig-Sakai Joint Working Group Releases Draft Bylaws for Merged Organization

[Josh Baron]

Colleagues,

The Jasig-Sakai Joint Working Group (JWG), which has representation from 
both the Sakai and Jasig Board of Directors and Executive Directors, has 
been working since September 2010 to investigate and plan for the merging 
of our two organizations.  This group met in New York City at the 
beginning of July (2011) to move forward on a number of tasks related to 
the merger.  One of the outcomes from this meeting was a working draft of 
bylaws for the new foundation which we are releasing to our two 
communities today as means to get feedback, hear concerns and stimulate a 
broader discussion of the plans.

It is important to stress that this is a DRAFT document that neither Board 
has yet approved at this point.  As means to improve communication with 
our communities, the JWG felt it was important and useful to release the 
document at this early stage rather than waiting for more details to be 
finalized.  As a result, you will see highlighted notes within the 
document indicating places were details are still underdevelopment.  We 
recognize that these are important details that our communities need to 
see in order to fully understand how the new foundation will operate.  We 
are very actively working on these and plan to release them over the 
coming month or two for a similar round of feedback and discussion.

Finally, if you are interested in contributing to the dialog regarding the 
planned merger, I would encourage you to join the Google Group that was 
established awhile back for this purpose as we plan to use it for all 
primary discussions with both communities.  If you have feedback or 
comments on the bylaws posting these to this list would be the best way of 
sharing them.  You can join the group by going to: 
http://groups.google.com/group/jasig-sakai-collaboration.

All of us on the JWG have great respect for the many talented and 
thoughtful people who make up our communities and are confident that your 
feedback, questions and ideas will ensure the best possible outcome as we 
work to finalize these merger details.

URL FOR DRAFT BYLAWS:  
http://www.sakaiproject.org/sites/default/files/JWG-BylawsDRAFT-28July2011.pdf

Thanks, 

Josh
Chair, Sakai Foundation Board of Directors
Co-Chair, Jasig-Sakai Joint Working Group

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Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York  12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron
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