[sakai2-tcc] Towards a fulltime coordinator

[Aaron Zeckoski]

Still looking for opinions and volunteers for this.

Thanks to Sam for putting together the list of 2.9 stuff. I think we
probably need to put that stuff on a wiki page somewhere. Anyone have
suggestions on a good spot?

I would add in:
(h) Improved configuration files to include more options and better defaults

Maybe it's also worth mentioning the number of critical+ bugs fixed?

-AZ


On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think we need the following things to happen to get to a fulltime
>> coordinator position and I need to ask for volunteers to work on
>> these.
>>
>> 1) A clear list of the features/benefits of 2.9 (and also of
>> additional 2.8/2.7 releases). We should probably have something like
>> this anyway but we especially need it in order to ask for funds from
>> people. This is important for the "Return on Investment" the board
>> wants.
>
>
>
> Benefits to 2.9:
>
> a) Security improvements
> b) Accessibility gains especially the default use of the much-improved
> CKEditor
> c) Lesson Builder content sequencing making Sakai CLE a viable for online
> training and online courses
> d) Look-and-feel refresh including accessibility gains
> e) Much-requested gradebook features including ability to drop highest /
> drop lowest in a category
> f) Runs on the latest version of Tomcat (Tomcat 5.5 is EOL on Sept 30,
> 2012!)
> g) Redone build process will allow for more maintenance releases (if there
> is community demand)
>
>
>>
>>
>> 2) Identify possible funding sources - I am not suggesting that we
>> seek the funding but we should be able to recommend possible sources
>> of funding for this position including possibly:
>> (A) the OAE general fund (since the depend on CLE being stable for the
>> forseeable future)
>> (B) Special dues (essentially an optional gold level of dues which
>> would be earmarked directly for CLE position(s) funding) - it was
>> suggested that some institutions would have a hard time offering money
>> directly but that it is easy for them to get approval for paying
>> higher dues as long as they are targetted
>> (C) Other?
>
>
>
> (c) The primary SCAs spend quite a bit of $$ sponsoring parts of the annual
> conference.  Without many other options available, it would be a way to
> re-allocate enough money to make up the gap between the 2-day a week pot of
> money and what is costs to hire 1.0 FTE.
>
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