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by Chad Outten.  

Hi Tim! I'm coordinating MoodleMoot AU 08. Yes, I can confirm that its being held Oct 1-3 in (sunny) Brisbane, Queensland.

We will be promoting the event & calling for presenters soon via moodle.org > so watch this space.

Cheers, Chad

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by Martin Dougiamas.  

After the longest beta-testing period in our history (over 5 months) including a successful Bugathon and nearly a year after Moodle 1.8, I am very glad to announce that Moodle 1.9 is now ready for use!

Major new features include:

• An all-new Gradebook designed from the ground up for expansion and integration with other systems (sponsored by Open University).


• Integrated support for Outcomes, so that learning goals can be tied to individual courses and activities, and can be graded against (Moodle.com)


• A huge increase in performance due to review and refactoring of many parts of the Moodle code. Large sites especially will see major speed increases. Special thanks to Catalyst in particular for their scalability work on the core Roles functions. (Catalyst Pty Ltd, Moodle.com etc)


• Tagging is now a core function allowing us to easily link things like users, blogs, courses etc as well as external sites like Flickr and Youtube through the use of simple tags. (Google SOC and Moodle.com)
  

and much much more, including hundreds of bug fixes and tweaks.

See the Release notes for full details and as usual, get your fresh copy of Moodle via your local CVS mirror or the (currently very busy!) Moodle download server.

Thanks to everybody in the Moodle community (and their families!) for supporting this complex project in a myriad of ways. It's just getting better and better, and I'm still having as much fun working with you all as the day I started.

Cheers and let's get working on Moodle 2.0 (ok, wait until tomorrow )

Martin
Moodle Founder and Lead Developer

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by Jason Cole.  

Registration is now open! Find details and pricing information for the event at the 2008 San Francisco Moodle Moot course, or go directly to the moot registration page.

Don't forget the call for presentations is still open as well.

The Call for Presentations is open. You will have to be registered at moodlemoot.org in order to submit a presentation for the moot.

Hope to see you in June.

Jason

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by Janet Hawtin.  

That timing would overlap with

ACEC'08
29 September – 2 October 2008
National Convention Centre,
Canberra, ACT, Australia

http://acec2008.info/default2.asp?orgid=1&suborgid=12

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by Chad Outten.  

Yes - we're aware of some overlap with ACEC. we considered a multiplicity of factors before deciding that oct 1-3 was best fit. fyi - oct 1 is the optional day of specialist workshops. our conference proper with keynotes & sessions runs oct 2-3. more info soon.

Cheers, Chad

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by Anthony Borrow.  

As Moodle's CONTRIB Contributor, I would be happy to give a presentation; however, I would like to get some feedback from the community as to what they would find helpful to hear. My initial thought is to explain the process for contributing code and learning to use the tools for developing in the Moodle community. My concern is that the topic is very broad and perhaps too broad. I would appreciate any help/suggestions in how to narrow this down so that it would be useful for the community. Peace - Anthony

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by Ralf Hilgenstock.  

Lutz Berger from the German SCOPE conference project and one of the creative leaders of German eLearning scene produced a short video about the German Moodlemoot in Heidelberg.

More reports and documentation for registered users in the next days at http://moodlemoot.de in the documoot course.

You'll find some hundred pictures at http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/searchbrowse?psc=G&filter=1&q=moodlemoot2008#2+1

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by Tabitha Roder.  

Hi Chad
I am watching this space - patiently awaiting more information.
Tabitha

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by Martin Dougiamas.  

We are very glad to be involved in Google's Summer of Code for our third year in 2008. Previous years have resulted in lots of interesting new code (some of which is in 1.9 or will be in 2.0).



At the moment we are just gathering new mentors and students so go to our Moodle GSOC page and help us work out what our student projects will be!