[DG: Open Forum] [Announcements] Sakai OAE

[David Ackerman]

In my opinion, three things:

1. OAE does not scale yet
2. OAE does not have all the features of an LMS
3. 1. and 2. are taking too long

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Mark J. Norton <markjnorton at earthlink.net>wrote:

>  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.
>
> Sincerely,
> David Ackerman, Sakai Board Chair
>
>
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