Developer meeting September 2008
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The meeting was at 7am GMT on Friday, 19 September 2008. We had 25 participants and we covered everything in around two and a half hours. (Although six people from Moodle HQ were logged in as one user, so really it was really 30 participants.)
- Recording of the meeting (password moodle)
Meeting notes coming soon!
Moodle 2.0
- Martin demonstrated the new files and repository interfaces. All files inside Moodle are referenced in a table, content of file stored in file pool, only one copy of file kept in file pool, files all associated with file areas, for example the assignment module defines the assignment submissions file area. Various plugins configured - box.net, flickr, flickr public, "upload a file". Additional plugins - Alfresco (added by Dongsheng), Dan P working on Google Docs, also Facebook, Myspace, Hive. Admin chooses which repositories are allowed, and can allow users to configure their own repository. The file picker will be added everywhere in Moodle where files are added (eg. forum post attachments). The file picker looks like open dialogue, with repositories listed on the left. Files can be previewed and renamed.
- Demo and discussion of the Portfolio interfaces (Penny etc)
- Demo and discussion of Activity completion (Sam?)
- Demo and discussion of new Messaging system
- Demo and discussion of new External Activities module, the successor to the HotPot module (Gordon)
- Demo and discussion of IMS LTI 2.0 consumer module(Ludo and J.Piguillem)...
- Wiki refactoring roadmap
- Usability testing of new features (See page comments by Gary Anderson)
- (if there's time and interest) [Feedback links for most all elements] (Jeff Forssell)
- If anyone wants to see, I can show a quick demo of current googledocs/picasa plugins portfolio/repo at the end (danp)
Other news
- Google Summer of Code 2008 (Helen)
- OLPC School Server integrating Moodle (Martin L)
- Translation
- OUBlog stuff
- Offline moodle based on Google Gears
