state of the mahara nation
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Keynote by Don Christie from Catalyst IT at Mahara UK13 on 4 July 2013TRANSCRIPT
Don Christie
<b>Catalyst IT</b>
@normnz
“Civilization is an open-source project”Ariel Katz http://arielkatz.org
“Interview sub-atomic particles? Can't be done. You can ask an electron a question or
hear the answer, but never both.”
Giovanni Tiso
History
The eCDF ePortfolio Project was a 12 month collaborative venture funded by the Tertiary Education Commission’s e-learning Collaborative Development Fund (eCDF), involving Massey University as lead provider and Auckland University of Technology, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand and Victoria University of Wellington as consortium members
MaharaUK 2010
Picture credit Frank Steiner, ULCC Events
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It's stupid, students
It's stupid students
It's the students, stupid
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So the barman sez, "We don't serve particles that travel faster than the speed of light"... Neutrino walks into the bar.
Coming upUniversal SearchEditor usability
SkinsOpen Badges
Icon, CSS, styles clean upFlexible page layout – rows/columns
Upload/merge LEAP2A filesUI improvements
https://reviews.mahara.org
Universal Search
Vertical Layouts – Mike Kelly
Mozilla Open Badges is not proprietary. It’s free software and an open technical standard any organization can use to create, issue and verify digital badges.
Core Team
Kristina HoeppnerAaron “Reno” WellsSon Nguyen Robert LyonEvonne Cheung
+ Catalyst e-learning team
Community CreditsMike KellyGredor AnželjDominique-Alain JanJasmin HodgeRalf HilgenstockAndreas HedigerDon Presant
http://www.cafepress.com/mahara
Making it easy to contribute
Thirst for knowledge is global
We take it for granted
Two atoms are walking along and one says to the other "I just lost an electron!".
"Are you sure?". "I'm positive!"
“'Free software' is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,' not as in 'free beer'.”Richard M. Stallman
It's <b>still</b> the students, stupid
An atom walked into a bar and said "how much for a beer?".
Barman says "for you, no charge!"