[DG: Open Forum] [Announcements] Sakai OAE

[Berg, Alan]

Sorry, can't resist, I was wondering about how a managed project will seek to expand community engagement.

Regards,

Alan


Alan Berg

Group Education and Research Services
Central Computer Services
University of Amsterdam
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From: openforum-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [openforum-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] on behalf of Mark J. Norton [markjnorton at earthlink.net]
Sent: 07 September 2012 13:49
To: David Ackerman; Sakai
Subject: Re: [DG: Open Forum] [Announcements] Sakai OAE

Four major universities have dropped their support of Sakai OAE.  While I appreciate being informed of this, I'd like to understand why.  Were there reasons given for these withdrawals?  Why would these institutions "remain persuaded that the concepts embodied in the design work to date are important and valuable" and yet pull back on their support.  That doesn't make sense. Please explain.

- Mark Norton


On 9/6/2012 6:52 PM, David Ackerman wrote:
To the Sakai Community:

I am writing to you in my capacity as Sakai Board Chair.

In late August 2012, UC Berkeley decided to withdraw from the OAE managed project.  This decision, on top of the departure of Indiana University and University of Michigan, has led the remaining partners and the project team to re-assess the project’s goals and timeline.  Charles Sturt University recently also decided to withdraw as a stakeholder institution.

All partners remain persuaded that the concepts embodied in the design work to date are important and valuable innovations that are unmatched in other systems.  And while the application architecture requires refactoring, pilots and user testing indicate that the user experience designs are both sound and unique.

Immediate actions taken in response to these departures include scaling back the development team and focusing efforts on the architecture to achieve greater scalability, performance, and deployment efficiency.  With the changes in team composition, the project is capitalized through early 2013.  By that time the goal is to re-implement the successful user experience design on a new architectural foundation.  The project then will seek to expand community engagement and add additional partners to accelerate progress.

This list is not the best avenue for discussion on this topic.  Given that any discussion can/should involve the entire Sakai community, the general open forum list would be most appropriate: http://collab.sakaiproject.org/mailman/listinfo/openforum or email to openforum at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:openforum at collab.sakaiproject.org>.

Sincerely,
David Ackerman, Sakai Board Chair



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