mahara: celebrating learning

Donald Christie(don@catalyst.net.nz, @normnz)

Catalyst IT Limited

“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