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Don Christie <b>Catalyst IT</b> @normnz

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Keynote by Don Christie from Catalyst IT at Mahara UK13 on 4 July 2013

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Page 1: State of the Mahara Nation

Don Christie

<b>Catalyst IT</b>

@normnz

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“Civilization is an open-source project”Ariel Katz http://arielkatz.org

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“Interview sub-atomic particles? Can't be done. You can ask an electron a question or

hear the answer, but never both.”

Giovanni Tiso

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History

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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

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MaharaUK 2010

Picture credit Frank Steiner, ULCC Events

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User Manual

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It's stupid, students

It's stupid students

It's the students, stupid

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Vitalstatistix

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ohloh.net/p/mahara

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$4,113,287

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Mahara Newsletter

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University of Canberra

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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.

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Coming upUniversal SearchEditor usability

SkinsOpen Badges

Icon, CSS, styles clean upFlexible page layout – rows/columns

Upload/merge LEAP2A filesUI improvements

https://reviews.mahara.org

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Universal Search

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Vertical Layouts – Mike Kelly

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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.

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Core Team

Kristina HoeppnerAaron “Reno” WellsSon Nguyen Robert LyonEvonne Cheung

+ Catalyst e-learning team

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Community CreditsMike KellyGredor AnželjDominique-Alain JanJasmin HodgeRalf HilgenstockAndreas HedigerDon Presant

http://www.cafepress.com/mahara

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Making it easy to contribute

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Thirst for knowledge is global

We take it for granted

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Two atoms are walking along and one says to the other "I just lost an electron!".

"Are you sure?". "I'm positive!"

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“'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

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It's <b>still</b> the students, stupid

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An atom walked into a bar and said "how much for a beer?".

Barman says "for you, no charge!"