I’ve been scouring academia for cloud computing projects and came across one that I myself am looking to get involved in (and not because its cloud computing).
NITLE hosts a Moodle Exchange (NME).
For faculty, technologists, and librarians at participating campuses that use or are interested in using Moodle. Participants in this collaborative user community focus on the use of Moodle at smaller, independent colleges and universities, sharing ideas and best practices and helping each other troubleshoot technical or use issues specific to liberal education and undergraduate colleges and universities. In the NME, Moodle-using or Moodle-interested campuses share strategies and ask and answer questions about implementation, evaluation, migration, customization, and other Moodle-related topics.
NME also works together to develop a Liberal Arts Edition of Moodle as well as plugins specifically focused on the needs of Liberal Arts Colleges. So how does this get cloudy? Well they use Google Code to distribute their developments. This allows everyone involved in the project to access or share code that has been developed for the community.
If you’re doing something similar let me know about it. I’m very interested in how different academic institutions are using the cloud to develop systems and applications.