We support carefully-selected open source applications for higher education.
Longsight Sakai

The Longsight Advantage

We understand the business of education.

Our understanding of technology in education is based on decades of front-line work in higher education IT management.

We have the experience to meet your needs.

We have been developing and supporting applications for higher education for more than 29 years. We have been hosting Sakai and its predecessors for seven years. We are involved with developer communities at many levels.

Our expertise matches our commitments.

We carefully select the open source/community source applications that we support and then support them fully. We are focused.

We are fully committed to an open and collaborative business model.

We apply this openness consistently to software selection, development, use and support. Open source software, openly supported, with no proprietary limitations. We ensure that you get the greatest benefit from community-developed software.

Partnerships are important to our work.

We work closely with our clients to understand their goals, strategies and practices in order to create thriving partnerships.

We have the infrastructure to meet your needs in two modern data centers with systems that Longsight owns, maintains and replaces on a regular schedule. Our strong emphasis on redundancy at every level with load balancing and failover protection ensures mission-critical availability.

Forrester report highlights Drupal and Alfresco as top projects

A recent Forrester Research report on "Web Content Management and Open Source" highlighted Drupal and Alfresco as the top two projects to watch.

From the CNET news article quoting the Forrester report:

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Access To Life

Longsight recently helped Magnum Photos and The Global Fund launch a new Drupal-powered focus site: Access To Life.

Access to Life

January Open Source Report

This month’s Longsight Open Source Report focuses on Sakai, the collaboration and learning environment for education. The Longsight Group was a sponsor of the 8th Sakai Conference which was held in California during the first week of December with tracks for those who develop Sakai, deploy Sakai and use Sakai.

NITLE DSpace Service

DSpace for NITLE

The Longsight Group is pleased to be hosting and supporting a new digital repository service offered to the higher education community by NITLE, the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education. The NITLE service is based on DSpace, the open source repository application developed jointly by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs.

OSP End-to-End Example: Faculty Profile

During a recent training session with the Ohio Learning Network, we demonstrated a common institutional form as implemented in the Open Source Portfolio (OSP) toolset: the faculty profile. Many institutions collect activity data from instructors every academic year. We use this common example to demonstrate the end-to-end creation of an OSP portfolio.

Appalachian College Association

Sakai instance for the ACA
The Appalachian College Association has relied on The Longsight Group for the past two years to provide Sakai hosting and support services as part of their major consortial initiative called LAMP. The ACA conducts many initiatives to support its members, none more significant than its Learning Asset Management Project (LAMP).

Longsight hosting Open Source Program for the Ohio Learning Network

OLN Open Source Pilot Program Through December, 2006, forty-two institutional members of the Ohio Learning Network will have access to four major open source applications hosted and supported by The Longsight Group.
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