Sakai announces Educational Partners Program

The Sakai Project has announced its Educational Partners Program, available to interested institutions for contributions of $10,000 per year for three years.

"The Sakai Educational Partners Program (SEPP) is being created and staffed to focus on the needs of partner institutions who wish to adopt Sakai tools or to develop tools for inter-institutional portability.  SEPP will provide partners early information on the direction of the Sakai Project, strategic briefings to help plan for Sakai at partner institutions, discussions of the project roadmap.  Partners will also get early access to the Tool Portability Profile, early access to Sakai software/tools, developer training, and other Sakai resources as the community for Sakai users and developers grows.  The SEPP offers the partners participation in planning for the future of the Sakai Project beyond the first pulse of software development, in developing the long term software, and in cultivating a community to make Sakai’s open source software an integral part of higher education’s future."