Thursday, January 21, 2010

Welcome to Connexions and Rhaptos Software Development Blog

What is Rhaptos?

  • The name for the open-source licensed software developed and used by Connexions.
  • An Ancient Greek adjective that refers to things stitched or sewn together.
  • Software to enable authors, instructors, and students to create, select, and assemble modular educational content into collections customized to meet their teaching and learning needs.

Features

  • Modular content that can be combined and reused in many ways
  • Version control with permanently referenceable versions
  • Semantic XML-based content
  • Lenses for endorsing, recommending, or suggesting content

Getting Started with Rhaptos Development

2 comments:

  1. Hi Katherine,

    Can you please tell the license details of Rhaptos and Enterprise Rhaptos.?

    -Astha

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  2. Most of the Enterprise Rhaptos code that was developed in house at Connexions is licensed using the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. Connexions builds on a suite of open source software (Plone, Zope, PostgreSQL, Open Office), each of which comes with their own open source license.

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