Chamilo

We've had a lot of teachers ask us for streaming capabilities and, over time, we've grown tired of setting up videoconference servers for a few bucks a month because teachers just can't afford the budget. While there are many tools around to do video streaming or classroom conferences, most of the operations to set them up seem to be a pain in the neck for most people desperately wanting to benefit from these features, and while Chamilo is preparing its first tests with BigBlueButton as a free, open-source videoconference classroom environment, this might still take a while to come out so I t

Let's say you want to install Chamilo on your netbook for a demo... Because Apache uses a lot of memory (and so does MySQL), it is generally considered a good practice to try and use something a bit lighter for your web server This procedure might also work, with a few minor alterations, for OLPC's XO laptops.

This post is the follow-up to a series of questions I've been asked about Dokkeos 2.0. I know, the name is misspelled, but I have a formal interdiction from the original trademark holder to use the protected name... Yes, it's come to this point now, what's going to be next, I wonder... In fact, I would probably not write this post if Dokkeos was respectful of the community game we're playing, but then asking me access to our servers to delete references of the true Dok...

I'll be talking about Chamilo and the state of open-source software in Peru on Radio Panik tonight, 7pm Paris time. French only: http://www.radiopanik.org/spip/Ecoutez-radio-Panik

I will be presenting Chamilo and our intention to make a Chamilo package for Ubuntu this year at the Ubuntu Developers Summit in Brussels, on Friday 14th of May (at the beginning of the afternoon).

As a developer or translator for Chamilo 1.8.*, you might often be faced with the need to know what variable is used to look for a translated term to be shown on screen. While we don't have a nice in-house feature for this just yet, you can easily hack your own.

Next week we'll be testing Chamilo 1.8.7 beta instead of 2.0. There will only be one testing session, so we'll have to split between 3 rooms: content creation, interactions and administration tools.

Apparently we have to improve our documentation (this is clearly an understatement). In Chamilo 1.8.6.2 and 1.8.7, there is a new checkbox in the admin panel for courses edition which says "Special course", and which you can check.