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E07 Podcast: An Interview with Per Wising
Created by Kelly Walker (Tintinnabulous) on November 12, 2007

In this 8-minute podcast, we feature an interview with Per Wising, Product Manager, Stockholm University. He discusses open source software development and the state of cyberinfrastructure in Sweden.

Sponsored by Real Networks

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Sun announce more software to be open sourced
Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on June 09, 2006

Sun have announced that their Sun Java System Portal Server (jsr168) system, is to be released as open source. They've already released some of the more minor components, a few portlets.

I'd like to put this down to high ideals on the part of Sun, but I find it hard. They've seen that the portal market is being consolidated by merges, both planned and in progress and they don't want to be left out in the cold. By open sourcing their portal server they place themselves to merge with the other contenders and greatly reduce the cost of supporting and maintaining the software going forward.

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Creating a Collaborative Information Technology Environment for Higher Education
Added by the EDUCAUSE Librarian
Title:Creating a Collaborative Information Technology Environment for Higher Education (ID: FFPIU026)
Author(s):Ira H. Fuchs
Origin:Publications from the Forum for the Future of Higher Education (2002)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:Fuchs discusses the impediments to collaboration as well as remarkable current efforts that might point the way to the future of information technology in higher education. He indicates that "Middleware", software which enables direct communication between systems and applications, will enable institutions to assemble and run a common architecture that lowers the threshold of effort and therefore substantially decreases the cost of development and ownership.
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http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/FFPIU026.pdf
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ffp0308s.pdfShort Version
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Collaborative Open Source Software: Panacea or Pipe Dream for Higher Education?
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Title:Collaborative Open Source Software: Panacea or Pipe Dream for Higher Education? (ID: LIVE053)
Author(s):H. David Lambert (Georgetown University)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Live!, Web Seminars Contributed by EDUCAUSE (2005)
Type:Presentations/Speeches
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Dave Lambert will examine the current trend toward collaborative open source software development (Sakai, Chandler, uPortal, and so forth) in higher education, exploring issues critical to assessing the long-range impact on campus systems. His assessment will include an historical perspective, locate this new paradigm in relation to the traditional buy-versus-build choices, and discuss issues related to institutional deployment and life-cycle support.

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http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/powerpoint/LIVE053.pps
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Sakai: A Collaboration Between the University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, OKI, and the uPortal Consortium
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Title:Sakai: A Collaboration Between the University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, OKI, and the uPortal Consortium (ID: EDU0442)
Author(s):Amitava Mitra (MIT)
Origin:Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences (10/21/2004)
Type:Presentations/Speeches
Abstract:Sakai is delivering an integrated open-source framework comprising an enterprise portal, a course management system, and a tool portability profile as a standard for writing future tools that can extend this core set of educational applications. Learn what Sakai has achieved and its direction for the future.
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http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/powerpoint/EDU0442.pps
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/ra/EDU0442.ram
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The Open Source Parade
Added by the EDUCAUSE Librarian
Title:The Open Source Parade (ID: ERM0458)
Author(s):Bradley Wheeler (Indiana University System)
Origin:EDUCAUSE Review Articles (2004)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
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The author discusses how growing software licensing fees are driving the efforts of open source application development.

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http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm04/erm0458.asp
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0458.pdf
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UNICON - Using Open Source uPortal Technology to Create a Comprehensive Online Environment for Your Campus
Added by the EDUCAUSE Librarian
Title:UNICON - Using Open Source uPortal Technology to Create a Comprehensive Online Environment for Your Campus (ID: CMR0428)
Author(s):Jason Lacy (Unicon, Inc.)
Origin:Presented at CUMREC Conferences (Archives) (2004)
Type:Presentations/Speeches
Abstract:uPortal has quickly grown to become one of the leading enterprise portals in the higher education community. In this presentation, UNICON will discuss how it has helped various institutions create a comprehensive online environment by integrating UNICON's commercial product, Academus, with uPortal and various course management, e-mail, library, and Web self-service systems.
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http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/powerpoint/CMR0428.pps
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/CMR0428.pdf
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How (and Why) to Listen to Heavy Metal: Participating in Standards Development Lets Higher Education Control its Destiny
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Title:How (and Why) to Listen to Heavy Metal: Participating in Standards Development Lets Higher Education Control its Destiny (ID: NLI0357)
Author(s):Vicki Suter (EDUCAUSE)
Origin:Contributed by EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (2003)
Type:Articles, Papers, and Reports
Abstract:One of the goals of the NLII is developing tools and standards to support new learning environments and creating market structures for the development of interactive learning materials. The NLII gives high priority to the monitoring of and participation in the development of technical specifications and standards for learning materials, instructional technologies, and software developed to manage courses (or learning), learning objects and other content, or student activities

Many factors influence the development of specifications and standards throughout their lifecycle. In particular, good communication and coordination between the tool users and the tool makers is critical, and the NLII sees its role as to facilitate that communication and coordination, working particularly with the IMS.

This article highlights several issues such as the specification and standards development life cycle, use case methodology and open source development. The role of IMS, OKI, and Shibboleth in this context is discussed; the University of Delaware's uPortal describes one model model for open source software development; and anoverview of NLII's involvement in the process of specification and standards development is given.

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http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NLI0357.pdf
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