[Building Sakai] one question about Sakai development and management

[Matthew Jones]

I agree with Sean, staffing levels vary a lot based on how much involvement
you want, what types of customizations you need, and what level of research
you want to invest. Commercial options are available either to start with to
continue on, rather than having local staff if desired.

Many schools keep up-to-date a lot of information including staffing levels
at this link:
http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PROD

*For some examples:*
The University of Michigan does a lot of active development and has around 5
developers/designers, 3 system administrators/dbas, 4 support/training/tech
writers. [1] We don't all work entirely on core Sakai though.

The University of Windsor did a presentation of their deployment/transition
at the conference. [2] They started out at the beginning with rSmart before
transitioning to in house staff. From their prod link it appears for full
time they have 1 developer, 1 administrator and 1 support person. [3]

You could potentially get by with 1 very talented and overworked person if
they were an expert in multiple fields, but this seems risky. ;) Possibly 2
if you had someone else doing the support.

I'm sure they're other examples out there as well,

[1] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PROD-2 (click on the staffing tab)
[2] http://goo.gl/Vm2g
[3] http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PROD-44

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Sean Keesler <sean.keesler at threecanoes.com
> wrote:

> Longfei,
>
> Even though the code isn't owned by a commercial entity, you can still
> get commercial support.
>
> You can find a list of companies that are very capable of helping you
> deploy and support Sakai on your campus on the Sakai project website.
> http://sakaiproject.org/commercial-support
>
> Alternatively, you can do it all in house with your own staff.
>
> Sean
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Longfei Yu <longfei at oit.umass.edu>
> wrote:
> > Hey, all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am wondering how many people (programmers or administrators) are needed
> to
> > use Sakai in a big institution (like 30,000 students)? I mean since Sakai
> is
> > not a commercial products, and needs a lot of computer programming skills
> to
> > make it run smoothly, so I want to know how many people (programmers or
> > administrators, etc.) are required and what are their roles in your
> > institution.
> >
> >
> >
> > We are using Bb8 now, and maybe thinking about to switch to Sakai
> (possibly)
> > in the near future, but have no idea how many people are needed for this
> > open source project.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > Longfei
> >
> >
> >
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