With a goal of more deeply engaging with key community members, Open edX welcomed organizations to join the platform as Mission-Aligned partners. We created a new category of membership on the Technical Oversight Committee for Mission-Aligned Organizations (MAOs).
Mission-Aligned Organization (MAO) is a new category of institution-level partnerships dedicated to accelerating development of the Open edX platform. The platform is supported by a strong, global open-source community that includes developers with deep expertise who service course-offering websites around the world that use the Open edX platform. Mission-Aligned Organizations have a demonstrated commitment to expanding access and impact and a willingness to contribute FTEs, 10 or more, to the project on an ongoing basis.
Western Governors University is the project’s first Mission-Aligned Organization. David Morales, Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President of Technology at Western Governors University joined the Technical Oversight Committee to provide strategy support, including platform architecture design, tech stack and design templates. Immediate priorities for the WGU engineers on the project include building a roles and permissions framework, creating better facilities for extracting data, setting up libraries of atomic learning units, and improving the upgrade experience for developers.
