state of the mahara nation

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

User Manual

It's stupid, students

It's stupid students

It's the students, stupid

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ohloh.net/p/mahara

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Mahara Newsletter

University of Canberra

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!"