Apereo Foundation collaborates with many other organizations to promote the use of open source technologies and open source values around the globe.
Interested in joining the Apereo Community? Learn more about our Community Membership program!
AXIES - Academic eXchange for Information Environment and Strategy
AXIES aims to “bring about advancement to education, research, and management at institutions of higher education and academic research by applying ICT, thereby contributing to education, academic research, culture, and industry in Japan.”
Big Blue Button
BigBlueButton is completely open-source and was created by a community of dedicated developers passionate about helping improve online learning. BigBlueButton is a purpose-built virtual classroom that empowers teachers to teach and learners to learn.
BigBlueButton was born out of the Technology Innovation Management (TIM) program at Carleton University’s Institute for Technology Entrepreneurship and Commercialization in Ottawa, Canada, and was launched externally in 2007.
Blindside Networks provides Apereo's instance of Big Blue Button.
ESUP - Portail
A national community of digital expertise, cooperation and development supporting open source solutions.
Une communauté nationale d'expertise numérique, de coopération et de développement soutenant des solutions open source.
https://www.esup-portail.org/
EDUCAUSE
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to lead the way, advancing the strategic use of technology and data to further the promise of higher education. EDUCAUSE strives to connect and empower our member community through insights, advocacy, resources, and learning opportunities to anticipate trends and strengthen professional practice.
https://www.educause.edu/
LAMP Learning Consortium
The LAMP Learning Consortium hosts Sakai for small learning organizations and colleges who want to be able to utilize the powerful and easy-to-use Sakai LMS without hosting it themselves. We partner with you to take care of the Sakai hosting and support, provide access to instructional designers, and get your courses up and running immediately.
Open Source Initiative
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is a non-profit corporation with global scope formed to educate about and advocate for the benefits of open source and to build bridges among different constituencies in the open source community.
One of OSI's most important activities is as a standards body, maintaining the Open Source Definition for the good of the community. The Open Source Initiative Approved License trademark and program creates a nexus of trust around which developers, users, corporations and governments can organize open source cooperation.
Open Policy Alliance
The Open Policy Alliance is designed to bring non-profit organizations together to participate in educating and informing US public policy decisions related to Open Source software, content, research, and education.
Responding to increased demand for public dialog and thoughtful stakeholder engagement in these adjacent and related “open domains”.
https://opensource.org/programs/open-policy-alliance/
Open Source Lab
The Open Source Lab is a nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.
The lab, in partnership with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Oregon State University, provides hosting for more than 160 projects, including those of worldwide leaders like the Apereo Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, the Linux Foundation and Drupal. Together, the OSL’s hosted sites deliver nearly 430 terabytes of information to people around the world every month. The most active organization of its kind, the OSL offers world-class hosting services, professional software development and on-the-ground training for promising students interested in open source management and programming.
https://osuosl.org/
Jisc
Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research and innovation.
We are a not-for-profit organisation and believe education and research improves lives and that technology improves education and research.
We provide managed and brokered products and services, enhanced with expertise and intelligence to provide sector leadership and enable digital transformation.
UK Association for Learning Technology (ALT)
ALT is the leading professional body for Learning Technology in the UK. Supporting a collaborative community for individuals and organisations from all sectors including Further and Higher Education and industry and providing professional recognition and development.
The Open Infrastructure Foundation
The OpenInfra Foundation builds communities that write open source infrastructure software that runs in production. With the support of over 110,000 individuals in 187 countries, the OpenInfra Foundation hosts open source projects and communities of practice, including infrastructure for AI, container native apps, edge computing and datacenter clouds.
OSPO Alliance
The OSPO Alliance is an open community that brings and shares guidance to organisations willing to professionally manage the usage, contribution to and publication of open source software. The Good Governance Initiative (GGI) proposes a methodological framework to assess and improve open-source trust, awareness and strategy within organisations. The OSPO OnRamp meeting series provides an open, neutral and friendly forum, low-threshold entry point to exchange and learn about the basics of how to set up an Open Source Program Office and get started with open source. GGI and the OnRamp series are key initiatives from the OSPO Alliance.