[Building Sakai] sakai registry / unicon

[Mark Norton]

The site was created by me (Mark Norton) and Erik Froese (of NYU) in 
attempt to gather information about tools and services for Sakai into 
one place.  We tried to get some revenue via sales of banner ads, which 
are still up on the site (thanks to Unicon and rSmart).  We debuted it 
at the Sakai conference in Amsterdam where it got mixed reviews.  The 
negative side of that criticism objected that this was a for-profit site 
and that somehow tainted the philosophy of Sakai as a open source project. 

Erik and I never really had any desire to make tons of money off it.  
Rather, we were attempting to find a sustainable model that would allow 
us to employ others to enter and maintain content.  The series of 
articles on the site by Cassie Norton is an example of such content.

In the end, neither Erik nor I could justify doing all the work by 
ourselves.  I couldn't figure out a way to get a large enough revenue 
stream out of it to fund data entry people.  As you can see, the site is 
still live, at least for another year (I just renewed the domain name).

I am open to suggestions from you and the rest of the community 
concerning The Sakai Registry.  If I was to open up the admin tools, 
would you (and other members of the Sakai community) help to maintain it?

- Mark Norton

Adam Marshall wrote:
> http://www.sakairegistry.com
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> I find these pages incredibly useful but it would appear that the service is
> not kept up to date. On the surface it looks like a Unicon initiative, I was
> wondering whether they may be persuaded to update for Sakai 2.6?
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> Adam 
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