state of the mahara nation 2014

Presented by Aaron Wells, Catalyst IT // Mahara UK 2014

State of the Mahara Nation, 2014

Aaron Wells (Me)

@AaronTheMad on Twitter

Lead Mahara Developerat Catalyst IT

About Catalyst

What's it like at Mahara HQ?

Wellington on a fine day

Wellington on a normal day

Wellington Botanic Gardens

My good friend Gandalf

Stonehenge New Zealand

Earthquakes

7 sheep to every human

As seen on Google Street View

Brighton

Riyadh Sydney

Hong Kong Phoenix

Chicago

New York

Wellington

Christchurch

Wellington KaikouraPukerua Bay

There's a nicer one on Level 3

What I see all day

What I should be looking at

What I should be looking at

Programming (PHP)

Code review (http://reviews.mahara.org)

1.10: It's coming!

Version Bugs Commits Files changed Lines added

1.10 (so far) 75 174 2,650 190,875

1.9 294 389 933 42,332

1.8 179 299 2,112 114,292

1.7 54 217 520 17,618

1.6 129 400 648 17,084

1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 1.10

Invisible behind-the-scene changes pictured here:

Perks for plugins

Loca for /htdocs/local

Custom sideblocks in /local

(These are sideblocks)

Trust me this makes sense

/blocktype/clippy/theme/aaron

/blocktype/inbox/theme/aaron

/blocktype/comments/theme/aaron

/theme/aaron/blocktype/clippy/theme/aaron/blocktype/comments/theme/aaron/blocktype/inbox

… and a few things you can actually see!

Editable new user page templates

TinyMCE (before)

TinyMCE (after)

Report objectionable forum posts

Drag pages into collections

What's on the 1.11 roadmap?

Feature creep

Every change breaks someone's workflow.

How you can contribute to Mahara

19 ways to get involved in

Based on a presentation by Kristina D.C. Hoeppner, Catalyst IT

Even if you don't know the difference between

&

1. Use the software

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgoyette/2819175465

2. Ask questions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21496790@N06/5065834411

3. Answer questions

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nhuisman/3168683736/

4. Report bugs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/34120957@N04/4199675334/

5. Give feedback

http://www.flickr.com/photos/henryfaber/230444653

6. Spread the word

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21551833@N00/4345518893/

7. Translate

http://www.flickr.com/photos/86931652@N00/2067945645

8. Write tutorials

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laffy4k/441037582

http://www.flickr.com/photos/laffy4k/441037582

9. Create screencasts

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photochiel/83361761

10. Provide training

http://www.flickr.com/photos/95492938@N00/5181464194/

11. Squash bugs

http://www.flickr.com/photos/82606279@N00/299991298/

12. Test features

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35723892@N00/4090782772/

13. Design themes

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fiduz/5592241473

14. Write books

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zitona/4053097146

15. Create plugins

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mroach/4095648200

16. Code review

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jantjesmit/95705255

17. Develop cool features

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hildeengwenverbouwen/3309575919

18. Sponsor features

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13519089@N03/4626960661/

19. Make a contributor smile

http://www.flickr.com/photos/srboisvert/728444428

Your gateway to the magical world of getting involved with Mahara:

The Mahara community website:

https://mahara.org

The Mahara wiki:

https://wiki.mahara.org

The Mahara Launchpad project:

http://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara

(but it's usually easier to just link there from mahara.org)

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