[DG: Teaching & Learning] Bb acquisition of Elluminate/Wimba, an opportunity for Sakai?

[Michael Feldstein]

It depends on what you mean by "under the umbrella." It certainly makes sense for us to build first-class integrations and generally cultivate good relationships with both projects. That strikes me as a no-brainer. If you mean invite one or both of these projects to become part of the Sakai Foundation, that's a more complicated question. Dimdim is company-driven open source, so I don't think they'd want to join the Foundation or that they'd be a good fit. BigBlueButton is a bit more interesting. I'm having a little trouble figuring out the organization from their web site, but I get the sense that they are more higher education community-driven. If they were interested in becoming a Sakai Foundation project (and therefore getting increased access to the community, marketing support, exposure at the conferences, etc.), there would be a bunch of questions we'd have to work out between the two communities to make sure the partnership would be win-win for everybody. But I definitely think it would be worth exploring.
 
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From: Mathieu Plourde [mailto:mathieu at udel.edu] 
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 11:46 AM
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Subject: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Bb acquisition of Elluminate/Wimba, an opportunity for Sakai?


Hello Sakaigers!

There are a lot of comments around "Sakai should pick up DimDim, BigBlueButton under their umbrella". There is already a lot of work that has been done in that sense, so please add your two cents!

http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2010/07/08/well-played-blackboard/

Mathieu
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