The Sakai Foundation

The Sakai Foundation is a member supported non-profit corporation with a small staff and modest budget. It was created in 2006 when the original Mellon funding for Sakai had run its course. Those involved in the Sakai effort wanted a small organization to continue to coordinate the activities of the community. While membership in the Foundation is optional, approximately 70 organizations around the world support the foundation, so that it can continue its important community activities. These include managing the intellectual property of Sakai, organizing conferences and planning meetings, maintaining the Sakai technology infrastructure including the bug tracking system and project Wiki, coordinating development activities and quality assurance, and publishing the Sakai CLE releases and functioning as a public advocate for Sakai.