The document provides an overview of the history and development of the Mahara ePortfolio project. It summarizes that the project was a 12-month collaborative effort between several New Zealand universities funded by an e-learning grant. It also lists upcoming planned improvements to the Mahara software including universal search, editor usability enhancements, and open badges integration. The document highlights the involvement of the Catalyst IT team and Mahara community contributors in the ongoing development of the open source project.

1. Don Christie
<b>Catalyst IT</b>
@normnz

2. “Civilization is an open-source project”
Ariel Katz http://arielkatz.org

3. “Interview sub-atomic particles? Can't be
done. You can ask an electron a question or
hear the answer, but never both.”
Giovanni Tiso

4. History

5. The eCDF ePortfolio Project was a 12
month collaborative venture funded by
the Tertiary Education Commission’s
e-learning Collaborative Development
Fund (eCDF), involving Massey University
as lead provider and Auckland University
of Technology, The Open Polytechnic of
New Zealand and Victoria University of
Wellington as consortium members

6. MaharaUK 2010
Picture credit Frank Steiner, ULCC Events

8. User Manual

9. It's stupid, students
It's stupid students
It's the students, stupid

10. Vitalstatistix

11. ohloh.net/p/mahara

12. $4,113,287

13. Mahara Newsletter

14. University of Canberra

15. So the barman sez, "We don't serve particles that travel
faster than the speed of light"...
Neutrino walks into the bar.

16. Coming up
Universal Search
Editor usability
Skins
Open Badges
Icon, CSS, styles clean up
Flexible page layout – rows/columns
Upload/merge LEAP2A files
UI improvements
https://reviews.mahara.org

17. Universal Search

18. Vertical Layouts – Mike Kelly

19. Mozilla Open Badges is not proprietary.
It’s free software and an open technical
standard any organization can use to
create, issue and verify digital badges.

20. Core Team
Kristina Hoeppner
Aaron “Reno” Wells
Son Nguyen
Robert Lyon
Evonne Cheung
+ Catalyst e-learning team

22. Community Credits
Mike Kelly
Gredor Anželj
Dominique-Alain Jan
Jasmin Hodge
Ralf Hilgenstock
Andreas Hediger
Don Presant
http://www.cafepress.com/mahara

23. Making it easy to contribute

26. Thirst for knowledge is global
We take it for granted

27. Two atoms are walking along and one says to the
other "I just lost an electron!".
"Are you sure?".
"I'm positive!"

29. “'Free software' is a matter of liberty, not
price. To understand the concept, you
should think of 'free' as in 'free speech,'
not as in 'free beer'.”
Richard M. Stallman

31. It's <b>still</b> the students, stupid

32. An atom walked into a bar and said "how
much for a beer?".
Barman says "for you, no charge!"