[Building Sakai] Mellon closing RIT program

[John Norman]

I don't know the answer to the Sakaibrary question for sure, but what I do know is that all funded projects will receive their awards as made. As Michael said, this is NOT turning off the tap.

HTH
John

On 6 Jan 2010, at 13:29, Mark Norton wrote:

> Is Sakaibrary still being funded by Mellon?
> 
> michael feldstein wrote:
>> I don't know the details of Mellon's plans as well as some in the 
>> community, but it's important to keep in mind that Sakai has not 
>> received Mellon funding (to my knowledge) in several years now and is 
>> financially independent from it. So this news, while unfortunate, 
>> should have no impact on Sakai resourcing or Sakai development.
>> - m
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/5/2010 7:55 PM, Ron Peterson wrote:
>>> Can folks in the know comment on the impact of Mellon's decision to
>>> close the Research in Information Technology program?
>>> 
>>> http://chronicle.com/blogPost/In-Potential-Blow-to/19519/
>>> 
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