From the website:

UC Berkeley is developing a podcast capture, post-processing, and distribution system that will integrate current technological advancements such as Apple's Podcast Producer with existing academic community source frameworks such as Sakai to replace its antiquated system.

The initial release of the OpenCast system is projected for Fall 2008 and will satisfy our campus' local needs.  This system will not be a turn key solution since many institutions have different organizational, policy, and business requirements, and demand a certain level of cost for adoption. Nevertheless. UC Berkeley has taken steps to develop a flexible object model that will allow other schools to potentially participate in a broader community source initiative.   Because other institutions use CLE solutions outside of Sakai, the OpenCast system will run standalone as well as within the Sakai environment, and is designed to abstract Podcast Producer as a "Media Processing and Capture Engine" to allow for other alternatives.

From the website:

Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and metaverses on and across multiple operating systems and devices. Derived from Squeak, it features a peer-based network architecture that supports communication, collaboration, resource sharing, and synchronous computation between multiple users on multiple devices.

Every part of the system is designed around enabling real-time, identical interactions between groups of users. Croquet's architecture is designed to make it easy to develop deeply collaborative applications without having to spend a lot of effort and expertise in understanding how replicated applications work.

Using the Croquet Software Developer's Kit (SDK), developers can create and link powerful and highly collaborative cross-platform multi-user 2D and 3D applications and simulations - making possible the distributed deployment of very large scale, richly featured and interlinked virtual spaces.

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Fluid is a worldwide collaborative project to help improve the usability and accessibility of community open source projects with a focus on academic software for universities.  We are developing and will freely distribute a library of sharable customizable user interfaces designed to improve the user experience of web applications.

This could be a helpful org for penntags 

From the website:

Mnet is a distributed file store.

A distributed file store is a shared virtual space into which you can put, and from which you can get, files.

Mnet is also an emergent network. An emergent network is one in which the important features of the network result from the interactions of nodes operated by autonomous people or organizations who do not explicitly coordinate with one another.

There are many interesting applications that can be built on top of an emergent network and a distributed file store. The first application that has been written for the Mnet project is a file-sharing application which lets you search for and download files of all kinds.

The Mnet project is a Free Software, Open Source project run solely by hackers volunteering in the public interest. It currently has no commercial sponsorship, although there is at least one company that is using related source code. See the related projects page for more information.

From the website:

Connexions is:

a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute:

• authors create and collaborate
• instructors rapidly build and share custom collections
• learners find and explore content

 

From the website:

JForum is a powerful and robust discussion board system implemented in Javatm. It provides an attractive interface, an efficient forum engine, an easy to use administrative panel, an advanced permission control system and much more.

Built from the ground up around a MVC framework, it can be deployed on any servlet container or Application Server, such as Tomcat, Resin and JBoss. Its clean design and implementation make JForum easy to customize and extend.

Best of all, JForum is freely available under the BSD Open Source license.

From the website:

• The name for the open-source licensed software developed and used by Connexions.

• An Ancient Greek adjective that refers to things stitched or sewn together.
• Software to enable authors, instructors, and students to create, select, and assemble modular educational content into collections customized to meet their teaching and learning needs.