Keynote presentation by Don Christie at the Mahara UK 2010 event on 16 July 2010 (http://www.maharauk.org).

1. Donald Christie
(don@catalyst.net.nz, @normnz)
Catalyst IT Limited

2. “Celebrating Learning”

3. Project Structure
Significant Contributors
e.g. JISC, CLEO

4. Partners

6. Who are You?
(updated)
● 11,300 members of mahara.org community
● 24 Partners world wide
● 28,000 UVs / month (48% Firefox, 27% IE,
14% Chrome)
● 113 registered sites (since May 09)
●
83,700 users represented

7. Some Names
Richard Mansfield
François Marier
Kristina Hoeppner (elearning specialist)
Dan Marsden
David Drummond
Stacey Walker
Paul Walker
Heinz Krettek
Julian Ridden

8. Contributors = Healthy Project
http://wiki.mahara.org/Contributors

9. Mahara 1.3
Beta Release Now
Complete Security Review
Usability Report and Improvements
New Features
Automated Regression Testing

10. Dashboard Homepage

11. Logged In

12. Configurable Group Homepage

13. Views - Themes, Feedback

14. Feedback

15. Tag Clouds

16. Lots More
http://wiki.mahara.org/Roadmap
Vote for features
Finance features

17. Coming Up?
Usability
Walled Gardens
More Moodle/Mahara Integration
Multi-Page Views

18. Your Influence
http://wiki.mahara.org/Roadmap
Vote for features
Finance features

19. Other Stuff

20. https://launchpad.net/mahara

21. Four software* freedoms
● freedom to run the program for any purpose
●
freedom to to study how the program works,
and change it to make it do what you wish
●
freedom to redistribute copies so you can help
your neighbour
● freedom to distribute copies of your modified
versions to others
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
* See also Roosevelt's Four Freedoms

22. Affero GPLv3?
AGPLv3
Free as in Freedom

23. ULCC
Thanks

24. "St. Francis, Buddha, Muhammad,
Maimonides — all spoke the truth when
they said the way to serve yourself is to
serve others.
“And that Aristotle was right, before them,
when he said the only way to assure
yourself happiness is to give happiness"
Judge John Kane