[Building Sakai] one question about Sakai development and management

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Longfei,

If your customisation requirements are fairly small and you can generally get away with 1 FTE developer, 0.2 FTE sysadmin and probably and ongoing 0.8 FTE support which might need to be bumped to 2 FTE during times of high usage/support. 

At a previous institution, this was our setup for 20,000 students, however we performed intensive training for staff on campus so support was minimal.

One of the strengths of Sakai is it's pretty intuitive to use, there aren't loads of context menus that do all sorts of things so there's only a few things to click to get the job done - keeping support calls down.

If you plan on making lots of customisations, do them in a way that they might be beneficial to others in the community so they can get into the core codebase. Your upgrade path will be much easier and you'll be able to do it with one developer. Also, make use of the Sakai Foundation mSub SVN repository for tracking your local code and changes - it will make your life a lot easier.

cheers,
Steve


On 26/06/2010, at 12:35 AM, Longfei Yu 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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