[sakai2-tcc] Letter to the OAE steering committee?

[Aaron Zeckoski]

> A question I have is in regards to the CLE CC position that has been advertised, and where the 2 days per week came from, if we actually need quite a lot more?

I believe it was all the money Ian was willing to commit to for the
position. I (and others) said it needed to be full time but Ian said
they could not afford that. I won't claim to understand foundation
funding, however, the records are public and the foundation took in
about 1.1 million last year. I'm sure a lot of that goes towards
operation expenses (flights for the ED, etc.) and staff salaries (ED,
50% anthony, etc.) and supposedly there is debt which needs to be
handled as well. I guess 60k is what is left over.

-AZ



On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> My understanding of what was discussed this morning was that the TCC had a few options:
>
> 1. Figure out what resources and funding are required for the CLE and go back to the Board with those requirements and figures. The Foundation may not be able to provide the whole lot though, depending on what it is that is asked for.
>
> 2. Find funding (as you mentioned).
>
> I think we should exhaust 1 in the immediate instance, but also pursue 2.
>
> A question I have is in regards to the CLE CC position that has been advertised, and where the 2 days per week came from, if we actually need quite a lot more?
>
> thanks,
> Steve
>
>
> On 21/03/2012, at 11:27 PM, Aaron Zeckoski wrote:
>
>> It came up in the meeting with the board (and more afterward) that we
>> need to find funds to pay for a dedicated full time CLE person. The
>> suggestion of asking/making the OAE steering committee aware of the
>> need has come up. The idea would be to explain that a failure of CLE
>> would (1) erode trust in the Sakai brand and probably limit adoption
>> of OAE and (2) damage OAE in the short term since it lacks most of the
>> teaching and learning functionality that is necessary for schools.
>> Then we would ask that they direct some funding towards a fulltime
>> CLECC person (which may also have to take on hybrid and perhaps some
>> QA coordination).
>>
>> Thoughts?
>> -AZ
>>
>>
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