Following hot-on-the-heels of our recent news about Apereo, The Xerte Project has been accepted as an affiliate member of the Open Source Initiative.

"Xerte Project's Open Source Initiative membership furthers both organization's commitment to growing open source community and collaboration within institutions of higher education.

July 15, 2015 - PALO ALTO, Calif. -- The Open Source Initiative® (OSI) has announced the Affiliate Membership of The Xerte Project, an initiative to provide high-quality free software to educators all over the world, and to build a global community of users and developers around the tools.The partnership highlights the OSI's continued efforts within the higher education sector...." Read the whole article here.

More links to follow.

http://www.prlog.org/12474713-xerte-project-joins-open-source-initiative.html

This puts us in a stable of real heavyweights in the open source world: http://opensource.org/affiliates/list.