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A MoodleMoot is a gathering to discuss and learn about Moodle. They take place all over the world and tend to be face to face conferences. Sometimes they are limited to a particular user group (for example, a school district) others are open to the entire worldwide Moodle community.

MoodleMoot features

While there is no such thing as a "typical" MoodleMoot, one might include:

Guest Speaker(s)
Workshops
Vendor area
A Moodle site to share examples
Podcast of presentations
Lots of collaboration, mentoring and sharing between all attendees
Demonstrations

Conference Center @ Moodle.org

The Conference Center (a course at Moodle.org) has announcements of Annual Meetings and open MoodeMoots.

Moodlemoot.org site

This site also posts announcements, has helpful MoodleMoot resources and can serve as a Moodle site specifically for a MoodleMoot.

Here at http://moodlemoot.org/

Origin of name

'Moot' is an old Anglo-Saxon word for a meeting of the freemen of a shire. The first use of MoodleMoot is attributed to Sean Keogh, who organised the first ever Moodle conference and is a Lord of the Rings fan. See for more background.

However popular MoodleLegends claims it is another humorous, pun on the word moot. Which in the context of open source collaborative software could deliberately confuse an ancient meeting in a public house, with a hypothetical case study, and a point with no monetary importance. In short, a great educational experience for all participants.

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-A MoodleMoot is a gathering to discuss and learn about Moodle. They take place all over the world  and tend to be face to face conferences. Sometimes they are limited to a particular user group (for example, a school district) others are open to the entire worldwide Moodle community.
+A MoodleMoot is a gathering to discuss and learn about [[Moodle]]. They take place all over the world  and tend to be face to face conferences. Sometimes they are limited to a particular user group (for example, a school district) others are open to the entire worldwide Moodle community.
 ==MoodleMoot features==
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 ==Conference Center @ Moodle.org==
-The Conference Center posts announcements of Annual Meetings and open MoodeMoots.
+'''[http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=33 The Conference Center]''' (a course at Moodle.org) has announcements of Annual Meetings and open MoodeMoots.
-[http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=33 here at moodle.org Conference Center]
 ==Moodlemoot.org site==
 This site also posts announcements, has helpful MoodleMoot resources and can serve as a Moodle site specifically for a MoodleMoot.
-[[http://moodlemoot.org/  here at moodlemoot.org]] .
+Here at http://moodlemoot.org/
 ==Origin of name==
 'Moot' is an old Anglo-Saxon word for a meeting of the freemen of a shire. The first use of MoodleMoot is attributed to Sean Keogh, who organised the first ever Moodle conference and is a Lord of the Rings fan. See [http://moodlemoot.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=11 for more background].
-However popular MoodleLegends  claims it is  another humorous, [[disambiguation]] on the word [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot moot].  Which in the context of open source collaborative software, deliberately confuses an ancient meeting in a public house, with a hypothetical case study, and a point with no monetary importance.  In short, a great educational experience for all participants.
+However popular MoodleLegends  claims it is another humorous, pun on the word [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moot moot].  Which in the context of open source collaborative software could deliberately confuse an ancient meeting in a public house, with a hypothetical case study, and a point with no monetary importance.  In short, a great educational experience for all participants.
 ==See also==
 [[list of user groups]] for a list in MoodleDocs, not complete
+[[Category:Conferences]]
+[[fr:MoodleMoot]]

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