Wither a Community Roadmap
I answered a Brian Jorgensen e-Mail proposing a Community Roadmap – he also has a Blog entry about it.
http://www.moosetrout.com/braindrain/sakai-community-roadmap
This is my answer. While I liked the basic idea – I very consistently am negative when something smacks of a “community driven management layer” – where some group appoints themselves to “be in charge” and drive all of Sakai to be “deterministic” as if we were a set of non-volunteer developers.
Sakai is a federation and we need to accept that – it is simply reality – all the fantasy of us as a company is not there (until we get to 2-3 million of revenue annually).
Once we have 2-3 million in revenue, then we will become a non-profit development company where the paying community has *every* right to have all kinds of checks, balances, determinism, and detailed reports.
But then, folks should look deeply into whether they want the community to *do* the work or delegate the work to a single organization (The Sakai Foundation).
To operate as a real federation where there is true respect for each organization that is in the federation – we must accept that each of those organizations (and individuals) will self-determine to some degree.
Freedom has a price – it is taking responsibility for ones *own* actions and respect for the actions of others.
