User:James Neill/Moodleposium/2010/Dougiamas

Moodle 2.0 and the community: Martin Dougiamas, Moodle founder

Martin Dougiamas, just in from a conference in Greece, says we're actually doing pretty well in Australia - although criticism is part of the development cycle.

1. xkcd universities webapage comic - good usability graphic - what would xkcd say about Moodle?
2. Shows Moodle.org - 2nd oldest moodle site
3. Demonstrates Moodle tracker, e.g., including QA (quality assurance) for testing whether things work in 2.0 - anyone can do this e.g., using their own latest version of Moodle - or http://qa.moodle.net (rebuilt every hour)
4. Only 3 of the top 10 using Moodle countries are English-speaking; Spain is the highest use per capita
5. Languages - http://lang.moodle.org - allows collaborative translation (uses AMOS - flags and tracks all 85 translations)
6. Moodle 2.0 benefits
   1. Security improved
   2. Performance better
   3. Media/file management improved
   4. Integrations - Primarily a course management system - which integrates with intranet and/or wider world
   5. Usability
   6. New features e.g.,
      1. Navigation block
      2. Change roles from any page