[Building Sakai] Mellon closing RIT program

[Michael Korcuska]

I've just blogged about this:

http://sakaiproject.org/blogs/michael-korcuska/mellon-rit-program

On Jan 6, 2010, at 08:03, Dunn, Jon William Butcher wrote:

> 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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>>>> Network & Systems Manager
>>>> Mount Holyoke College
>>>> http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso
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