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

[Scott Siddall]

The good folks at BigBlueButton have been working to set up a non-profit to
lead this fascinating project.   You can read more at
http://bigbluebutton-blog.blogspot.com/2010/07/bigbluebutton-foundation.html
Their move toward an independent foundation makes sense to me since the
project is likely to be important within and beyond the LMS market.   Their
fully open, higher-ed oriented approach is awesome!  Longsight is piloting
with a dozen institutions now to learn more about the T&L needs it can meet.


 

            Scott

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[mailto:pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Michael
Feldstein
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 12:22 PM
To: Mathieu Plourde; Sakai Dev List; Teaching & Learning Sakai Group
Subject: Re: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Bb acquisition of Elluminate/Wimba,
an opportunity for Sakai?

 

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.

 

- m

 

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From: Mathieu Plourde [mailto:mathieu at udel.edu] 
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 11:46 AM
To: Sakai Dev List; Teaching & Learning Sakai Group
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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