• http://www.bodington.org/tetra.php

An interesting open source development in the U.K. announced last week; from the press release:

The Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Hull, and the UHI Millennium Institute announce the formation of the Tetra Collaboration, the outcome of a series of meetings and a major summit held at the University of Oxford on the 25th-26th September 2006.

The goal of the Tetra Collaboration is to coordinate activities across the member organisations so as to more efficiently develop and deploy open source enterprise applications of use to UK and European universities and colleges. By working together we can share common solutions to better serve the needs of students and academics, and each of the institutions named is committed to making tangible contributions into the collaboration.

One of the first Tetra projects will be to continue the work of the Bodington open source learning management system to produce Bodington - Next Generation or Bodington NG. This will combine elements of the Sakai open source framework with the pedagogically strong Bodington toolset. A major design goal of Bodington NG is to develop and implement an SOA enterprise e-framework.

The collaboration will also be working with uPortal, DSpace and Fedora.

Question for open-source developers: How much overlap and collaboration is there between the open source communities in America and in the UK and Europe? Who are the people doing good work in building the bridges?