Open Academic Environment - More Open, More Popular
Channel: Apereo Foundation
Date: 2017-06-05

Presented by: Frederic Dooremont - ESUP-Portail / Université du Littoral; Mathilde Guerin - ESUP-Portail / Université de La Rochelle; Alain Mayeur - ESUP-Portail / Université de Valenciennes

Open Academic Environment is a flexible, customizable and powerful solution designed to facilitate collaboration between users, no matter what institution they are at or what kind of user they are. It has been built to scale and support the whole of academia in real time collaboration. It thus opens up the possibility of profound improvements to the way academia is connected. At the same time, it is at the bleeding edge of dealing with the issues that arise when open source moves to the cloud.

This presentation reports back to the Apereo community on progress over the past year, which has focused on two areas: making the Project itself more open and responding to the increasing popularity of the service provided by two OAE deployments, one run by ESUP-Portail on behalf of universities France and one, *Unity, by *Research for universities all over the rest of the world. It also describes how two such completely different organisations have been able to work together effectively in open source.