http://www.ithaka.org hourly 1 2006-09-06T17:57:33Z http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/Introduction These case studies were assembled during the course of our research on the possible uses of open source software in higher education.  While these materials are not included in the final report ... 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/Apache Apache has gone through several distinct phases since its founding in 1995. The first dates to a web server development project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/ApacheDataPoints People Involved Committers - Volunteers Approximately 320 (40% of approximately 800 total committers) ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/KeyMilestonesForApache 1994Rob McCool of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois and Mosaic develops server software to return web sites in response to a query. The server&... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/ApacheSources Apache Software Foundation website: http://www.apache.orgApache HTTP Server Project website: http://httpd.apache.orgSteven Weber, The Success of Open Source (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/DSpace DSpace was launched in November 2000 with the announcement of a collaboration between MIT Libraries and HP Labs to create a software system with the capability of preserving, indexing and ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/DSpaceDataPoints   KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/KeyMilestonesForDSpace 2000MIT Libraries and HP Labs undertake a $1,800,000 research and development project “to create an operational software system with broad functionality to capture, manage, preserve, and ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/Moodle Beginning in 1999, Martin Dougiamas, a webmaster at Curtin University of Technology in Australia, grew frustrated by the existing course management system software and sought to combine his ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/MoodleDataPoints People Involved Key Moodle Roles 7 Main Developers ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/KeyMilestonesForMoodle 1999Dougiamas officially begins creating Moodle, “originally an acronym for Modular-Oriented Dynamic Learning Environment,” and also “a verb that describes the process of lazily ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/Sakai The Sakai Project was officially launched in December 2003 with a goal of creating open source learning management software through a collaborative process.  It originated at the University of ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/SakaiDataPoints People Involved Volunteers 85 volunteers contributed their time to QA the 2.2 release ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/KeyMilestonesForSakai 2003The University of Michigan submits a proposal to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a two-year grant for the Sakai Project, to be led by Joseph Hardin.The Sakai architecture is released.Sakai ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/ooss-project-wiki/UPortal A pioneering project in open source for higher education, uPortal was established in 1999-2000 with the goal of creating a web-based single point of access for  the information technology ... KKiser 2008-03-31T19:14:39Z Wiki Page