[Building Sakai] Investigating site exports from Sakai 2

csev csev at umich.edu
Mon Oct 12 06:03:06 PDT 2009


I agree with all that - I was just reacting to your "Use  the blocker,  
Luke" statement.  Like the force, the blocker has two sides to it.

/Chuck

On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:52 AM, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

> I think the flipside to the 'once schools are ready they will fix  
> archive' argument is that once schools are ready to move on, they  
> may see there is no good full export, or some other product/vendor  
> will tell them that the export is no good, and they may consider  
> moving away from Sakai altogether. That being said, they still need  
> to get their content out, but 'vendor lock-in' isn't a good selling  
> point ;)
>
> I know a lot of institutions that have Sakai are just consumers and  
> see Sakai to be a vendor type product, they have no resources to  
> devote to Sakai except to keep it running, so hope someone else will  
> do it for them and it will be 'in the next release'.



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