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The Sakai community represents a coordination not only of individual software developers, but of institutions as much as individuals, and also a full variety of actors contributors - from pedagogists to designers, from end-user support staff to senior administrators - interested in the role of this software in furthering the academic mission. The community therefore functions in a way that differs from traditional open source projects. We For this reason the range of contributions, projects, decisions, etc. differs markedly from a traditional, technically-focused open source project. We therefore call it community source.
Sakai Partner Organizations
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