By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Announcement[Edit][Delete]: Elgg and WebCT, Sitting in a Tree..., Aperto [Edit][Delete] February 20, 2006
Curverider (the commercial name for Elgg) and Aperto (founded by Sasan Salari, originally from WebCT) "are collaborating on an integration between the Open Source system Elgg and WebCT's product lines." James Farmer is sckepital of commercial learning management systems, but "knowing how much value and vivre an Elgg environment could bring to one of those lifeless WebCT courses find myself quibbling a bit". More...
ROAR
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Steven Harnad[Edit][Delete]: ROAR, JISC-Repositories [Edit][Delete] February 22, 2006
Steven Harnad writes: "Here are three (lately re-named) OA Registries that we hope the OA community will find useful (and will use!): (1) ROAR is the Registry of Open Access Repositories. See also ROAR's sister project, OpenDOAR. (2) ROARMAP is the Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies. More...