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All,<br>
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Please note that the correct link to the community website is
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.xerte.org.uk">http://www.xerte.org.uk</a>.<br>
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I am very honoured to be part of this community, and look forward to
a very fruitful future for Xerte Online Toolkits!<br>
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With kind regards,<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Julian Tenney schreef op 30-6-2015 om
14:48:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good people,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Xerte Project has reached a very
significant milestone, having graduated from the Apereo
Incubation process to become a fully-fledged Apereo Community
project. When I wrote to our user and developer communities
about looking for a new home for The Xerte Project back in
March 2014, we were uncertain where the road ahead would take
us, although we felt at the time that a foundation would offer
the solution we were looking for. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We began engaging with both the Apache and
the Apereo Foundations during the spring of 2014, and at the
end of the summer we formally chose to join the Apereo
incubation process, feeling that Apereo offered The Xerte
Project a lot of opportunities to build relationships with
other projects and access to new communities of users and
developers with which we share a common problem space in
Higher Education. You can find out more about the Apereo
Foundation on their website: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.apereo.org">http://www.apereo.org</a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Xerte Project graduates the incubation
process in much better shape than it entered: we have changed
our licensing to the Apache license, which removes a big
barrier to adoption associated with the ambiguities of the
GPL. We have thoroughly audited all of the source code and
addressed several issues around intellectual property and
licensing, and we now have agreements in place with all the
people and organisations that have contributed to the
project’s codebase. We have formed a board of governors to
provide oversight, and we have put processes in place for
decision making. We’ve made a lot of information available
about how the project works and how to get involved. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have engaged with new communities in
Europe and the United States, and we’ve been blown away with
the interest we are generating. With the release of the beta
code for Xerte Online Toolkits v3.0 we are poised to bring you
the next version of the software, with a host of new features
and functionality. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You can get the latest code either from the
xerte community site: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.xerte.org">http://www.xerte.org</a> or from
our github repository <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits">https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits</a>
where you can also find a lot of new information on the wiki:
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/wiki">https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/wiki</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All in all, this is an absolutely fantastic
place for the project to get to. I’m enormously grateful to
everyone who has contributed to this part of our journey and
I’m delighted to be see the project going from strength to
strength: there are very exciting opportunities for the
project ahead.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Julian<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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