Longsight helped launch a customized version of Sakai for the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM) in the summer of 2007.
Longsight integrated Sakai with NEOUCOM's campus LDAP, secured the site and all LDAP connections with SSL, and migrated hundreds of existing quiz pools and content modules from a legacy WebCT installation.
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.
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).
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. 
The editors at Academic Commons have released their second edition. A full table of contents is available. The essays and interviews in the latest release include:
Technology as Epistemology by Peter Schilling, Amherst College
Peter Schilling acknowledges that "To say 'new technology is changing the way we think' is as obvious as it is ambiguous." But he also probes the point and challenges our thinking: "Not only do our students possess skills and experiences that previous generations do not, but the very neurological structures and pathways they have developed as part of their learning are based on the technologies they use to create, store, and disseminate information." It's not just about skills and experiences but "categories, taxonomies, and other tools they use for thinking" that are "different from those used by their teachers."
On October 13, 2005, Scott Siddall and Ludovic Marcotte of Inverse groupe conseil presented a webinar on Open Source Email Solutions. Longsight has used a stack of open source software to handle our internal mail and clients' mail for the past several years. Using commodity hardware running Linux, with central identity integration, makes for a powerful and scalable combination.
A Flash presentation of the webinar is available at http://inverse.ca/webinar/oct_05/. Case studies of Denison University, Berklee School of Music, and HMC Montreal are included at the end of the presentation. Links to the stack of software described in the webinar are available below:
Longsight built the Academic Commons using the Drupal content management system. Longsight added an editorial workflow system, new content types, and a group system that provides ad-hoc, web-backed email lists.
Introducing Academic CommonsLongsight, in partnership with the Community College of Southern Nevada, was accepted as a member of the Sakai Educational Partners Program (SEPP).
The SEPP offers the partners participation in planning for the future of the Sakai Project beyond the first pulse of software development, in developing the long term software, and in cultivating a community to make Sakai's open source software an integral part of higher education's future. --Sakaiproject.org
