Here's the body of an email that some of you will see on sakai-dev; I tried to provide a few ideas on how to include the bigger picture when making technology decisions, as well as some suggestions with respect to a community roadmap and supporting process:

The other day I sent a response to the sakai advocacy list about what the new Executive Director's goals should be. Since this gave me a chance to bring forth a few ideas that I learned while working as the web services group manager for The Alberta Library, one of Canada's largest library consortia, it seems like a good place to start this weblog.