[DG: Open Forum] [Announcements] Sakai OAE

[Mark J. Norton]

 >   OAE does not scale yet

How much change to the architecture will be needed?  Is it "back to the 
drawing board" or just a matter of tuning things up?

 >  OAE does not have all the features of an LMS

How big a gap is this?  Is there a chart of targeted features with 
status?  If not, why not?

 >  1. and 2. are taking too long

It wasn't a resource issue until most of the big players left. Why is it 
taking too long?

- Mark


On 9/7/2012 12:37 PM, David Ackerman wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>>     <mailto:openforum at collab.sakaiproject.org>.
>>
>>     Sincerely,
>>     David Ackerman, Sakai Board Chair
>>
>>
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