mahara: celebrating learning
DESCRIPTION
Keynote presentation by Don Christie at the Mahara UK 2010 event on 16 July 2010 (http://www.maharauk.org).TRANSCRIPT
“Celebrating Learning”
Significant Contributors
e.g. JISC, CLEO
Project Structure
Partners
Who are You?
● 11,300 members of mahara.org community● 24 Partners world wide● 28,000 UVs / month (48% Firefox, 27% IE, 14% Chrome)● 113 registered sites (since May 09)● 83,700 users represented
(updated)
Some Names
Richard MansfieldFrançois Marier
Kristina Hoeppner (elearning specialist)Dan Marsden
David DrummondStacey WalkerPaul Walker
Heinz KrettekJulian Ridden
Contributors = Healthy Project
http://wiki.mahara.org/Contributors
Mahara 1.3
Beta Release Now
Complete Security Review
Usability Report and Improvements
New Features
Automated Regression Testing
Dashboard Homepage
Logged In
Configurable Group Homepage
Views - Themes, Feedback
Feedback
Tag Clouds
Lots More
http://wiki.mahara.org/Roadmap
Vote for features
Finance features
Coming Up?
Usability
Walled Gardens
More Moodle/Mahara Integration
Multi-Page Views
Your Influence
http://wiki.mahara.org/Roadmap
Vote for features
Finance features
Other Stuff
https://launchpad.net/mahara
● freedom to run the program for any purpose● freedom to to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish
● freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbour
● freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
* See also Roosevelt's Four Freedoms
Four software* freedoms
Affero GPLv3?
AGPLv3
Free as in Freedom
ULCC
Thanks
"St. Francis, Buddha, Muhammad, Maimonides — all spoke the truth when they said the way to serve yourself is to
serve others.
“And that Aristotle was right, before them, when he said the only way to assure
yourself happiness is to give happiness"
Judge John Kane