The Purpose of Sakai
Sakai is a community of institutions and other interested parties that has come together to address the needs of its members for online collaborative tools to support teaching, learning, and research.
Sakai OOB should contain enough features to impress and engage new users, should have exemplary usability, and should be bug-free and reliable. A major function of the Sakai organisation (Foundation?) will be to ensure this is delivered.
The workings of Sakai should be open and transparent to all. The code should be open-source with a liberal license to encourage adoption and to allow the product to be strengthened by third-party contributions.
Membership
Institutional Membership
Initial membership will be the membership of SEPP plus the Core at the time of formation. Thereafter Institutional Membership will
- be open to Higher Education Institutions anywhere in the world.
- require payment of a subscription
- Institutional Members will elect the Board
Individual membership
Individual membership will be part of the meritocracy roles/levels. It will
- be open to any individual
- have 2 classes; technical/developer and utility/functionality
- require nomination in one or other class by an existing individual member, institutional member, or corporate affiliate member and ratification by 2/3 of existing individual membership in the corresponding class
- be free
- Individual Members may be elected to the Project Management Committees and to the Board
Corporate Affiliate Membership
Corporate Affiliate Members will
- be open to any Organisation supplying goods or services to the higher education sector
- require nomination by an existing individual member, institutional member, or corporate affiliate member and ratification by 2/3 of existing institutional membership
- require payment of a subscription
- representatives of Corporate Affiliate Members may be elected to the Board
Compostition of the Board
Number and Term of Directors
- The Board will be composed of 5-7 Directors
- Half of the Board will be re-elected each year (2 year term for Directors)
- A Director may be removed by a 2/3 vote of Institutional Members
Election of the Board
- Nominations for election to Board vacancies can be made by any member (institutional, individual or corporate affiliate)
- Voting will be at the annual meeting by institutional members only - one institutional member, one vote
- Any member (or their nominated representative in the case of institutional or corporate affiliate members) is elegible for nomination and election