[Building Sakai] Mellon closing RIT program

Dunn, Jon William Butcher jwd at indiana.edu
Wed Jan 6 08:03:13 PST 2010


The Sakaibrary project's Mellon funding concluded in mid-2008. However, I
should note that our funding was from the Scholarly Communications program
rather than RIT.

Jon

On 1/6/10 8:29 AM, "Mark Norton" <markjnorton at earthlink.net> 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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