On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Jarrod Millman <mill...@berkeley.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > There are several open source, community developed projects > widely-used in higher ed. For example, moodle is a widely-used course > management system: > http://moodle.com/ > Sakai is another course management system for use in higher ed: > http://sakaiproject.org/ > The Jasig consortium provides several applications used in higher ed: > http://www.jasig.org/ > > The following, while not specifically focused on higher ed, are also > widely deployed in higher ed environments: > http://roundcube.net/ > http://squirrelmail.org/ > http://www.list.org/ > http://www.isc.org/software/bind > > Best, > Jarrod
Thank you Jarrod, exactly the kind of doorway into this topic I was looking for. You've saved me some time. Here's a random example of a commercial vendor and all with a list of features I'm wondering if some universities supply themselves (in-house), and/or what's out there that's open source (perhaps with support services). http://www.verdexsoft.net/university-software.htm I'm seeing dribs and drabs. I notice Yale invented Centralized Authentication Service (CAS) and that Princeton is involved somehow. Berkeley DB is from Berkeley, used in OpenLDAP (originally from Umich). These kinds of things. Maybe there's a whole literature I've yet to unearth. I like to see universities taking the lead in some way... (they call it "non-commercial"), eating their own dog food. Same thing with hospitals. They seem to not want to develop much inhouse, even for research -- or maybe I've not been inside the right hospitals? You'd think the open source ethic and health care would be more hand in glove. Then you get a bevy of commercial companies offering expertise with these open source tools, e.g.: http://www.unicon.net/company/about#Domain_Expertise Note: Oracle now owns Berkeley DB and has put the Sqlite3 API in front of it (as an option). Costs big bucks looks like. Kirby PS: I came across this useful discussion on Dr. Chuck's blog (he posts here sometimes -- we met at Pycon2009 in Chicago). Reading: http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=opensource _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
