[Announcements] Happy 10 Year Anniversary, Sakai - 22 September 2003

[Josh Baron]

As with Anthony, and I am sure many others, Sakai had a huge positive 
impact on my professional and personally life...as I've commented to some 
in the past, the education I've received through these experiences is 
priceless and something I will cherish forever.

My endless gratitude to those who lead the way in the beginning and to all 
those who will continue to lead us into the future.

Happy Anniversary Sakai!

Josh

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



From:   Anthony Whyte <arwhyte at umich.edu>
To:     "Brooks, Lois" <Lois.Brooks at oregonstate.edu>, 
Cc:     "Lance Speelmon \(lance at speelmon.com\)" <lance at speelmon.com>, 
"James Hilton - University of Michigan \(hilton at umich.edu\)" 
<hilton at umich.edu>, "'Amitava Mitra \(babi at MIT.EDU\)'" <babi at MIT.EDU>, 
"ian.dolphin at apereo.org" <ian.dolphin at apereo.org>, 
"joseph.hardin at gmail.com" <joseph.hardin at gmail.com>, "merriman at MIT.EDU" 
<merriman at MIT.EDU>, "announcements at collab.sakaiproject.org" 
<announcements at collab.sakaiproject.org>, Carl Jacobson <carlj at udel.edu>
Date:   09/22/2013 06:32 PM
Subject:        Re: [Announcements] Happy 10 Year Anniversary, Sakai - 22 
September 2003
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Sakai has had a profound and beneficial impact on my life--both 
professionally and personally--and I know I'm not the only one who feels 
this way.  A hearty thanks to all those who helped transform table talk 
into a higher education initiative that has changed ways of thinking, ways 
of sharing and, not least, ways of doing.

[I mentioned the above to Brad yesterday and I'd like to share it with 
rest of the Founders. :)]

anthony whyte | its and mlibrary | university of michigan | 
arwhyte at umich.edu | 517-980-0228


On Sep 22, 2013, at 6:26 PM, Brooks, Lois wrote:

Brad,

What a flood of memories this brings back! We've collectively accomplished 
a lot in the ten years since and made many good friends along the way. 
Congratulations to the community for your accomplishments, and thanks, 
Brad, for reminding us of this.

Lois

Lois Brooks
Vice Provost, Information Services
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon


From: Wheeler, Bradley C [bwheeler at iu.edu]
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2013 3:00 PM
To: announcements at collab.sakaiproject.org
Cc: ian.dolphin at apereo.org; Anthony Whyte (arwhyte at umich.edu); Brooks, 
Lois; joseph.hardin at gmail.com; Chuck Severance (csev at umich.edu); 
merriman at MIT.EDU; Lance Speelmon (lance at speelmon.com); 'Amitava Mitra (
babi at MIT.EDU)'; Ira Fuchs (irafuchs at gmail.com); James Hilton - University 
of Michigan (hilton at umich.edu); Carl Jacobson
Subject: Happy 10 Year Anniversary, Sakai - 22 September 2003

Colleagues,
 
Happy 10 Year anniversary near to the day and hour 10 years ago that the 
Sakai Project formally began to take shape.  As I recall, Chuck Severance 
also recounts this story in his book, and my recollection is recorded in 
the 2007 OSS Watch commissioned case study (excerpt below).  The Mellon 
Foundation grant was approved on 15 December 2003 (thank you Ira Fuchs), 
and that may be a world record from concept to funded project.
 
In the last decade, our institutions have learned a lot regarding how to 
achieve things together.  Happy birthday, everyone!
 
--Brad
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IU Vice President for IT & CIO, Dean, and Professor
Indiana University, http://ovpit.iu.edu 
 
 
 
 
3. Project history (Excerpt from 
http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/cs-sakai)
 
The Sakai Project was formulated at an impromptu dinner in Ann Arbor, 
Michigan with Joseph Hardin (U. of Michigan), Amitava Mitra (MIT), Jeff 
Merriman (MIT), Charles Severance (U. of Michigan), Lance Speelmon 
(Indiana U.), and Brad Wheeler (Indiana U.) on 22nd September 2003. The 
project built upon prior code-sharing collaborations between Indiana, 
Michigan, and Stanford (with Lois Brooks) universities. Michigan, MIT, and 
Stanford had also previously collaborated as part of the Open Knowledge 
Initiative (OKI) Project. All four institutions had decisively chosen not 
to use a commercial VLE and were independently pursuing development of a 
next generation set of software tools to support education and research. 
Thus, Sakai was born through a merging of efforts for home-grown systems 
with a vision to scale the collaboration to a vibrant open source 
community. The project agreed to combine the 'best-of' software tools and 
intellectual property from its founders to create the Sakai software.
 
The Sakai Project was announced at EDUCAUSE in November 2003 (Figure 1). 
The University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, and Stanford 
University agreed to collectively contribute US$4.4m in staff to the Sakai 
Project. The OKI Project and uPortal, via JA-SIG (with Carl Jacobson), 
also joined as Sakai co-founders. In December, the Andrew W. Mellon 
Foundation added US$2.4m to the Sakai Project based on the strength of the 
partners and their commitment to implement Sakai. In February 2004, the 
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation seeded the Sakai Educational Partners 
Program (SEPP) with US$300,000 as half of its first year start up budget. 
SEPP was announced in March with 19 founding educational partners.
 
Also Archived in IU Scholarworks at http://hdl.handle.net/2022/6689
 
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