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.
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
10. 2 plataforms
Chamilo LMS
Easy to use
Fast
Social
Starts: 2001
Users: ~6 million
Chamilo LCMS Connect
Collaboration
http://lcms.chamilo.org
Learning objects
Connecting to external repositories
Starts: 2006
Users: ~100,000
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
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!
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
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)
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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Security
Captcha
Password complexity check
Integrations
Google Docs (input/output)
Google Calendar (input/output)
Use of standard programmatic components
Symfony
Composer
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
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)
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