First, thanks Ben and Al for your willingness to hash this out in an honest debate. And thanks to the community for all of the thought-provoking replies. Special thanks to Lars, the picture is worth thousands of words.
I've been trying hard to think of another project that we might be able to compare the governance models against. The closest thing that comes to mind is Prometheus (which no longer is available).
Does anyone know how the Prometheus project was governed? It certainly was successful in getting adoption from other institutions
http://www.prometheus.com/partners/academic_partners.html
(Prometheus.com redirects to Blackboard but there's a site underneath it..)
http://www.prometheus.com/product
dotLRN team congrats on the launch! U Heidelberg (Carl) welcome!
As for Berklee's status, we've built an excellent LMS ontop of the course admin pieces of dotLRN and are working non-stop towards a launch in September.
