[sakai2-tcc] Infrastructure discussion for future meeting?

[Charles Severance]

Dave - 

I agree with what you say below - if you read my message further - I suggested that we (the TCC) even keep track of *who* would be the right folks to work on these things - since a random developer is not (as you say) likely to go into these things - but we may know a person or organization that might go after something for $10K-$20K - we would raise funds and then we would help make sure the funds went to someone competent to make the progress.

I am not suggesting we hope to find random free developers who without any prior Sakai dev skill would be able to fix our sticky session problem :)  I am talking about the "old fashioned" resource - money.   And Alan's suggestion for some kind of crowd-fund raising has some real merits.

/Chuck

On Mar 12, 2013, at 2:44 PM, David Adams wrote:

> That level of specificity and purpose will be required to shake the
> "hypothetical" resources free. Otherwise, it will remain just be a big
> list of things no one will ever tackle.
> 
> Another big reason institutions are shy about taking leadership on
> these projects themselves is the risk that their contributions will be
> ignored or turn out to have been misguided. If the TCC takes the lead,
> they can be relatively sure the work will be going to good use, will
> be technically sound within the Sakai architecture, and will end up in
> the community code and will generate a clear benefit and not a
> fruitless burden. Not to mention it's good experience and training for
> their staff to be able to work directly with the icons of the Sakai
> community.

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