Apereo members are joining peers in the Education and Open Source community in presenting their expertise at FOSSY. Be sure to send kudos and good luck to these folks as they join the wider open source community in Portland.

In order of appearance at FOSSY 2023:

Stephanie Youngman is presenting UniTime - Born of Research, Now Fostering Open Research Through Competition

Carlos Turró-Ribalta is presenting Advanced Video for your Campus: The Opencast Video Ecosystem

Anne-Marie Scott is presenting How to procure open source (you don't)

Benito Gonzalez is presenting TWO talks! Introduction to Incubation at Apereo and Open Standards in Higher Ed and the Challenges of Interoperability

Clint Lalonde is presenting We shared some open ed tech. YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!

Patrick Masson is presenting Open Source in Higher Ed is Different

Joshua Wilson is presenting Forging Strong Open Source Communities: Insights and Lessons from the Sakai LMS Community

Shoji Kajita is presenting Research Data Management Skills Development Leveraged by an Open Source Portfolio

Apereo Foundation is grateful to our Sakai+ community and Virtual Inc. for joining us in sponsoring the FOSS in Education Community Mixer and community coffee breaks.

Voting Apereo Board of Directors
Elections for open Apereo Board Member seats will take place over the next few weeks. Ballots will be sent to voting member representatives on June 28th via Helios Voting. Contact Patrick at ed@apereo.org with any questions about voting or elections.

Decommissioning FARM
Apereo Foundation will officially decommission the FARM (Funding And Resource Management) project in 2023. Information about FARM currently housed on Apereo.org will be archived this summer. Stakeholders of FARM initiatives, please reach out to ed@apereo.org and michelle.hall@apereo.org with questions or concerns. 

New Apereo.org is Coming!
Apereo staff and volunteers are working diligently to refresh the content and design of Apereo.org for a new launch coming in Fall 2023. Project and community leaders will see content request emails coming from Apereo’s communications manager, Michelle Hall, in the coming weeks. Please be on the lookout! Reach out to michelle.hall@apereo.org with questions or if you would like to submit information for the new website for your project or community of interest.

SAVE THE DATE

July 26th at 9 am Virtual
Please stay tuned for information on how to register coming out early in July.
Email ed@apereo.org for more information.

The Apereo Foundation is pleased to continue the micro-conference series engaging the community with exciting open source expert speakers this summer.

Want to join? E-mail conferences@apereo.org for your invitation to these events.

HAX 7 Released
The ELMS:LN and HAX community is pleased to announce the release of HAX 7, which was put into production across hundreds of courses at Penn State. This is the largest release of the platform to date and will start actively being promoted to other groups at the university beyond the core team as a viable content management solution for engaging instructional materials.

• Over 346 features, bug fixes, and enhancements since HAX 6 (Jan '23)
• Overhauled block discovery system. See preview on hover; easily expand and collapse logical groupings of elements
• Merlin - A command discovery agent that allows you to type and discover functionality, search for media, search with your voice, suggest community improvements, insert blocks, and much, much more!
• More unified authoring experience - menus slide in gracefully to indicate editing mode changes, authoring tools all grouped in one location, menus look and feel unified and the inputs for editing blocks in context have all been reviewed to improve their usability and ease of understanding.
• Dark mode and enhanced mobile support for viewing AND authoring
• Lots of new block types for instructional design, including inline audio, multiple choice, mark the words, "learning component," page types, worksheet downloads, and more!
• Additional blocks including audio players, Spotify embed, Twitter embed, author "page flag" notes, and collapsed field-sets!
• Performance - This version of HAX loads even faster than previous iterations at all levels. Sites load faster, pages load faster, larger sites load faster, and the editor loads faster with fewer resources with extensive testing and support for low-performance / connectivity devices and environments

Join our Discord community: https://bit.ly/hax-discord

Download the release: https://github.com/elmsln/HAXcms/releases/tag/7.0.13

HAX 7 Product Tour
Bryan Ollendyke gave a product tour of HAX 7.0.3 and “how to talk” about installing it on Reclaim Cloud. Find it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zmext_0e4xQ

Opencast in the (German-speaking) Wild
With user registration finally in place, the long-lasting discussion about the usage and relevance of Opencast in the “lecture capture market” won’t end. Correspondingly, the survey the German association of higher education IT centers launched, does not represent the usage in German (speaking) universities with 72 responses from 250 members (and more than 400 universities overall). But it’s nice to see it shows Opencast as a market leader.

uPortal Release 5.15.0 
Congratulations to the uPortal community on the release of uPortal 5.15.0 in June!

Thank you to our institutional and commercial affiliate members who continue to help Apereo grow and thrive. 

We are especially grateful to the many members who chose to designate funds toward particular software communities via the Software Sustaining Subscriptions. Thank you for being champions of Apereo open source projects.

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