Why Open Source?

Greater flexibility

• to customize software to meet your specific needs

• to integrate open source applications with other information systems

Open Source Email Solutions for Higher Education

Open Source Email Solutions

On October 13, 2005, Scott Siddall and Ludovic Marcotte of Inverse groupe conseil presented a webinar on Open Source Email Solutions.  Longsight has used a stack of open source software to handle our internal mail and clients' mail for the past several years.  Using commodity hardware running Linux, with central identity integration, makes for a powerful and scalable combination.

A Flash presentation of the webinar is available at http://inverse.ca/webinar/oct_05/.  Case studies of Denison University, Berklee School of Music, and HMC Montreal are included at the end of the presentation.  Links to the stack of software described in the webinar are available below:

E-Learning Systems

We support carefully selected open-source course management systems for those who wish to deliver their content without getting involved in the details of technical support.

We also provide opportunities for institutions to pilot modern course management systems without committing to a full implementation. The Longsight Group is currently working with Sakai and Moodle.

The Open Knowledge Initiative has created a great deal of interest in course management systems created for higher education by higher education. Members of The Longsight Group have been involved in OKI activities since October, 2001. We are supporting open source CMS products in several ways:

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