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Open Space1 - L-Conference House Lilac

= Can NYSAIS Members Collaborate to Build and Host a Better Moodle? =

Live collaboration space http://etherpad.com/32Wv95B8yW

Collaboration space for **Could we collaborate to build/host a better Moodle?**

What are the advantages of a hosted Moodle solution? - Save time fine-tuning the system for speed, etc - Save FTE for other efforts (teaching, etc.) - John Ment went to hosting to try to outsource whenever possible especially the backend tech stuff becasue it takes more FTEs than they would like. In house hosting is slow and complex. "We want our best people to be working with people, not to be spending time in the back end."

Very unhappy with MoodleRooms.

Open source software is supported more in eudorope than here. England espcially.

MySQL database is all that's really needed. LAMP for Mac or WIMP for Windows

New patches everyday. That's part of what we pay them for. However, their policy for installing modules off their "Golden List" is that they won't install.

NanoGong is an audio extension. Records inline. Java based and great for language. Can speed up or slow down the recording. Remote Learner support for this limited and not production-ready. Wasn't on the "Golden List"

Riverdale proposes an NYAIS Cannonical install - fully tested, etc. This includes sharing codebase, support and knowledge. Buying Rackspace hosting and sharing (?).

Spence suggests a consortium of NYCIST schools going to RemoteLearner and impressing upon them what our needs and desires. This good be good for both sides.

Magic Hour for CMS. Good people with new product that still needs work. Just bought out by ??

Advatages of going to open source project after it has reached critical mass. Moodle has, indeed, done so.
 * ===== Mahara - e-portfolio - [] =====
 * ===== Alfresco - open source content management repository (offered by Remote-Learner) - [] =====
 * ===== Wimba - [] =====
 * =====Kaltura Video - //(added on Sunday, November 15, by Lisa Pedicini)//=====

Sacred Heart has Moodle in house and has LDAP/AD integration with Moodle.

Riverdale has done Active Directory with Remote-Learner.

It is universally acknowledged that it won't be possible to get beyond 75 percent adoption without Head support/mandate. Or you could use cattle prods.

Adoption bell curve mentioned by J Ment: [] []

Do we want to commit to a Moodle Consortium? This will take a lot of time planning and developing.

Would this be more compelling if there was shared *content*? Heads may find this frightening.

Or do we want to commit to a consortium of schools not hosting ourselves, but bringing our influence to bear on RemoteLearner to gain better pricing?

Study: Barbar Means & Online Learning: []

Bugzilla Version control project management?

John suggests we may have more power rolling our own than buying as a group from a moodle partner.

Lisa ask about group negotiation with Remote-Learner? 1. It would be great to get a list of people interested in talking as a group to Remote-Learner 2. First see who uses Remote-Learner 2. Agreeing on what we need 3. Talking to Remote-Learner

Riverdale Modules:
 * Nanogong
 * Lightbox Gallery
 * Journal - missing this feature
 * Podcast - Tried to get this working but couldn't (Remote-Learner: "It's a browser issue")

Spence
 * Nanogong
 * Gallery? Interested in this
 * Journal - will be missing this feature in Moodle 2.0. Online assignment does not work the same way.
 * Podcast - working, and then broke after an upgrade

Sean Dagony-Clark sdc@riverdale.edu Lisa Pedicini lpedicini@spenceschool.org @pedicini (Twitter) Tim Isganitis - tisganitis@polyprep.org - @tisganitis (Twitter) David Helddheld@poughkeepsieday.org Jen Davenport - jdavenport@riverdale.edu - @jenniever (twitter) Judith Seidel Paul Chalmers pchalmers@pcs-nyc.org Colin Samuel colin@cshnyc.org John Ment - jment@riverdale.edu Suzanne Crow scrow@spenceschool.org