Category: Events

CLAMP announces Fall 2009 Moodle Brown Bags

The Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project (CLAMP) added 13 member  institutions to its roster over the last few months. To get everyone  up to speed — and to show case the work we’ve been doing — we’re  hosting several virtual brown bags in November and December:

  • Introduction to Elluminate, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Nov. 11
  • Documentation Overview, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Nov. 18
  • Code Development Overview, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Dec. 2
  • Introduction to Redmine, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Dec. 16
  • Introduction to Version Control, 12 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Dec. 23

All of these events will be held in NITLE’s new Elluminate video  conferencing room. The brown bags are free, but registration is  required so that we can send attendees the conferencing link.

For more information about these brown bags, visit our Events Web Page. To register, use the online registration form.

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V, Jan. 5-7, 2010

Moodle Hack/Doc Fest V will be held January 5-7, 2010 at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. The event will feature programmers and instructional technologists coming together to improve Moodle. We expect to continue work on CLAMP’s Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition project, fix outstanding Moodle bugs, and craft new training materials. We also hope to test drive Moodle 2.0, which is scheduled for a beta release at the end of 2009.

With this Hack/Doc, CLAMP returns to its “pay your own way” funding model. Lafayette will be providing breakfast, lunch and snacks for attendees, but they will need to pay for their own transportation, lodging, and dinner. In addition to the conventional Hack/Doc Fest, we’re planning on coordinating a virtual component to Hack/Doc Fest that will allow people to participate from their own campuses.

Visit the event home page for more information and to register.

Requesting Hacks, Fixes and Documentation for Hack/Doc Fest IV

Hack/Doc Fest is coming soon, and we’re starting to put together our list of possible tasks for the event. We’re in the process of gathering and reviewing the usability tests that a number of schools conducted in the spring, and we expect a good chunk of our work to be guided by those results.

As always though, we’re looking for suggestions from the community about things *you* want us to look at and work on. These can be bug fixes, hacks, functionality improvements, documentation, road testing, etc. 

Note: You don’t have to be attending Hack/Doc Fest to make suggestions — we’d like suggestions from the entire community.  Read more

Hack/Doc Fest IV at Smith College, June 3-5, 2009

Hack/Doc Fest IV is now! It’s running June 3-5, 2009 at Smith College. We’ll be focusing on usability testing and a solid CLAMP version of Moodle 1.9.5 to run through the next academic year.

Logistics Update: We’ll be in Wright Hall, starting in Room 5.  There’ll be coffee and breakfast-snacks at 8:30 a .m. and lunch will be provided.  We typically work until around 5 p.m. and then break for dinner. We have no set dinner plans any particular night.

Leaving Friday: People will be leaving at various times on Friday, as travel arrangements require, but we should still be able to accomplish something Friday morning.

Contact: Jo Cannon is the Smith coordinator for Hack/Doc Fest; you can reach her at 413 585-3472.

When: June 3 -5 (Wednesday – Friday)

Where: Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063

Travel: Closest airport = Bradley (BRD)
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