OK, so we've already had Moodle posted as another success story of Opensource in Education, so it's only right that the Sakai Project gets a mention as another big winner. Not only is it used widely in Higher Education, it is gaining admiration and suport from the commercial sector, as Thomson's adoption of the opensource collaboration and learning environment goes to show. From the recent press release:
Thomson Learning will work closely with the Sakai team and other commercial affiliates, including Unicon, to continue the overall effort to keep the open source models vibrant. The commitment to provide ongoing contributions to the Sakai Foundation in a number of methods, including software contributions and open standards support, is essential to this partnership.
Of course the algorithms will work - but that's not to say that they're correct. As someone who will be QA'ing some of the science products from MODIS/MISR, I'm really looking forward to getting hold of some data at last.
The one thing that is finally starting to be recognised is that they need to fund the backing science just as much as the technical side of the missions. Better late than never...
Being as this is a Federal project you could always go and seek ut the costings. It's been a long haul to get to this point, with budget cuts year upon year - just ask all the instrument teams that got cut along the way.
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The one thing that is finally starting to be recognised is that they need to fund the backing science just as much as the technical side of the missions. Better late than never...
Being as this is a Federal project you could always go and seek ut the costings. It's been a long haul to get to this point, with budget cuts year upon year - just ask all the instrument teams that got cut along the way.
One of the Goddard sites has the news if you need to see it to believe it.