The document discusses the history and future of Chamilo, an open source learning management system (LMS). It summarizes Chamilo's origins from Claroline and Dokeos, and describes its current ecosystem including over 6 million users and partnerships with companies and universities. The document outlines Chamilo's goals to improve education and corporate training through ongoing projects like new versions of Chamilo LMS and LCMS with additional features, and hopes for the future like increased community involvement and autonomous organization.

2. Chamilo
Past, present, future
Projects, plans and hopes
Chamiluda Madrid 2013
Frans Kamp
Treasurer, Chamilo Association
- 2013 -

3. The Chamilo project

4. We believe in technological tools
to sublime education
(that's why we're building them)

5. Past

6. Our history
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Claroline
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Dokeos
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2001-2003
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2004-2009
Code for Chamilo LMS
Code for Chamilo LCMS
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Chamilo
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7. Present

8. The Chamilo ecosystem
Community
6M users
Jobs
Educational
platforms
+300 people around
the world have
Chamilo-related jobs
Association
5 directors in 4 countries
R&D projects
Partners
4 companies / 2 universities
Free Software
Adaptable / No licensing costs

9. Essential aspects
Platforms
Easiness / Usability / Accesibility
Saving time for education
Enhancing corporate training
Community
Support
Promote
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10. 2 plataforms
Chamilo LMS
Easy to use
Fast
Social
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Starts: 2001
Users: ~6 million
Chamilo LCMS Connect
Collaboration
http://lcms.chamilo.org
Learning objects
Connecting to external repositories
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Starts: 2006
Users: ~100,000
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11. Future

12. Objectives
Improve education / corporate training
Help develop best practices
Teach better, faster
Help more students, in more places
With better tools
To give greater autonomy to association
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13. Projects
Short term

14. Chamilo LCMS
Release of Chamilo LCMS Connect v4 (Q4)
Pages, files and webpages (=documents)
Improved exercises
Improved reports
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15. Chamilo LMS
Release of Chamilo LMS v1.9.8 (minor version)
Correction of ~50 bugs of 1.9.6
New plugins:
OpenMeetings (videoconference)
Tickets (support) for universities or large companies
Screencast
Tasks tool redesign
Mobile versions
Android: Development by UC3M
Iphone: iLearning application review (see screenshot)
Others: improvement of HTML5 support
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20. Chamilo Association
Setting budget for 2013-2014
First investment in development (fixing bugs) in 2013
New members management system (NoSoloRed's contrib)
SSL certificates for *.chamilo.org
More contributors/collaborators
Greater diffusion (marketing@chamilo.org)
Release of book “Quick starter guide” on lulu.com (soon)
Most of these contributions made by volunteers!
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22. Plans
Medium term (2014)

23. Chamilo LCMS
Interface improvements (- clics, + info for users, interface re-design)
MediaMosa connector improvement
Usability improvements for objects perms
Drag & drop
Improvements in bug fixing process
Automated testing
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24. Chamilo LMS (1/3)
Release of Chamilo LMS v10/14 (major version)
Compatibility with more databases
PostGreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle
Load balancing for databases
Mobile Interface: HTML5 jQuery-Mobile + Android
Translations through Gettext
Debian/Ubuntu package
Native videoconference 1-to-1 (WebRTC)
Native SVG icons (greater quality and speed)
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25. Chamilo LMS (2/3)
Exercise tool
Questions categories
Progress marker (see screenshot)
Copy-paste blocking
Greater feedback control
Grading by jury members
WYSIWYG
CKEditor / full HTML5 → OK with Safari
HTML5 multimedia
OGG videos + automated conversion on Linux servers
Audio oga + mp3
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28. Chamilo LMS (3/3)
Security
Captcha
Password complexity check
Integrations
Google Docs (input/output)
Google Calendar (input/output)
Use of standard programmatic components
Symfony
Composer
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29. Chamilo Association
Chamilo University (getting certified on Chamilo)
More university members
Full time staff
New translations system (Pootle): more collaborative (suggestions, ranking, etc)
Crowdfunding system
fund.chamilo.org abandonned, looking at Kickstarter
New collaborative wiki documentation tool
Tikiwiki
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30. Hopes
Long term

31. Chamilo LMS
Integration TinCan API
Embedded videos editor
MindMap Tool
DropBox.com connector
OpenODF (online office documents edition)
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33. Chamilo Association
Autonomous entity
5 people staff
Representation in USA, Asia and Africa
Greater interaction with other open LMSes
Claroline (ongoing)
Moodle (occasional)
ILIAS (only SCORM-approved open system)
Sakai (good interface)
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34. Results
to our efforts so far

35. Chamilo Free Campus

36. Chamilo Free Campus
260,000 users
15,000 courses
177 countries in 2013

37. Community evolution
Chamilo (4y)
Dokeos (9y)

38. Community evolution

39. Community
To great community...
...great responsibilities

40. What the community does
Forums
Support other teachers
Suggest new features
Errors reporting
Errors fixing / Features development
Local groups (local meetings)
Organize word-spreading events
Build free content
Spread the word
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41. Contact
Frans Kamp
Treasurer – Chamilo Association
Helix Learning
Twitter: @chamilo_news
E-mail: info@chamilo.org