[Building Sakai] [Using Sakai] Blog Post and Press Release about Dr. Chuck, Blackboard and Sakai

[David C Ackerman]

Dr. Chuck, it is different.  Blackboard is a competitor to Sakai.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:09 PM, csev <csev at umich.edu> wrote:

>
> On Mar 27, 2012, at 7:23 AM, Stephen Marquard wrote:
>
> Hi Chuck,
>
> I'm wondering if you could outline your plans to handle the obvious
> conflicts of interest which would arise through your Sakai Board and
> Sakai TCC positions, both of which conduct discussions out of public
> view (i.e on private lists not open to the community).
>
> While there are other commercial affiliates involved in Sakai, I
> believe this could be the first time that we have a representative of a
> commercial concern with two or more competing products in its stable
> involved in day-to-day Sakai work.
>
>
> Stephen,
>
> The fact that Blackboard has interest in five products (actually many
> more) is not particularly relevant.   Existing commercial affiliates have
> Drupal, Moodle, Sakai, uPortal, Liferay, Shibboleth, and have plenty of
> closed-source code for one customer or another.   We don't need to address
> a Unicon conflict because they as a company they invest in both Moodle and
> Sakai or if they do closed source work for one of their customers.
>
> In terms of the board, the key to conflict of interest is to reveal it and
> make sure to recuse one's self when appropriate. I attach my board
> statement to this message - I will err on the side of recusing more rather
> than less often.
>
> I will simply continue to use all the public lists like I always have.
> When the TCC or Board have private discussions - there are reasons for the
> privacy in those discussions and I am responsible to protect the
> confidential information in those discussions regardless of what
> organizations I work for.    Blackboard (like all organizations) has a
> standard policy that I am to meet any and all obligations I have to protect
> (i.e. not reveal) any confidential information in my possession from any
> organization.
>
> Frankly all of us have information from our organizations that is not to
> be revealed on public lists or to other organizations or people.   We are
> all to exercise due diligence protecting the confidential information of
> our organizations.  I currently have confidential information from the
> University of Michigan, IMS, Sakai Foundation, and many others in addition
> to new confidential information I may encounter as I work for Blackboard.
> It is my responsibility not to reveal any confidential information on a
> public list nor to reveal confidential information I possess from one
> organization to another.
>
> My arrangement with Blackboard is no different than the arrangements that
> everyone has with our one or more employing organizations.
>
> /Chuck
>
>
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