Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: .LRN Standards (SCORM, IMS, OKI...) -- Looking for Volunteers

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21: Re: .LRN Standards (SCORM, IMS, OKI...) -- Looking for Volunteers (response to 1)
Posted by Nima Mazloumi on 08/30/04 01:13 PM
Sakai and uPortal are funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with 2.5 Mio $. Any chance we can as the consortium get such a grant?
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22: Re: .LRN Standards (SCORM, IMS, OKI...) -- Looking for Volunteers (response to 21)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 08/30/04 02:42 PM
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but .LRN currently is missing:

- At least one strong supporter that is internationally reknown (not institution, individual, who could go to these foundations in person)
- Good contacts into the foundation sector and experience in grant application.
- No clear focus on the US (I might be wrong, but most US foundations are focused on funding in the US).
- Clear goals on what to do with the money (no ideas what to apply the grant for).
- Coherent marketing. Public relations that have an impact.
- Speakers that attend conferences and brag about .LRN all the time.
- Recognition in public (e.g. Sakai = 650.000 googles, .lrn&openacs = 27.000).

I'm pretty sure you will find all this with Sakai, which explains the amount of funding. .LRN should therefore hope to be able to piggyback on other initiatives that will make use of the vast possibilities and easy of modification of .LRN as an enabler (see E-Lane project).