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Hehe... Should I announce it or should I keep it quiet a little bit more? :-) The beta is now available for download from the Dokeos repository: http://www.dokeos.com/download/dokeos-1.8.6-beta.zip There has been an enormous amount of work on this version. If you find any bug, please report it in http://projects.dokeos.com, after checking that it hasn't been reported already. We'll start making proper announcements soon :-)

It's generally difficult to find statistics or any kind of benchmark of salaries in IT. Indexel has given us one for year 2008. You'll find a table at the end of the article with the average salary per type of employee. http://www.indexel.net/management/salaires-des-informaticiens-bilan-2008-tendance-2009.html

I just checked the statistics quickly for the campus.dokeos.com portal. We've cleaned up the portal completely on the 12th of October, and yet... we have already reached 1400 courses and 13000 users.

campus.dokeos.com is provided as a free service to host courses inside Dokeos, but without any implied guarantee, so we strongly recommend you keep a backup (you can do that in your course options) at least once a month.

A few statistics from our database in early October 2008, from our version check script that sends a little (anonymous data to www.dokeos.com, as explained on the Dokeos admin page: Total number of portals registered (some of them might be duplicates): 6 375 Total number of courses created on these portals: 122 054 (campus.dokeos.com accounts for 32 000) Total number of users registered on these portals: 1 297 775 (campus.dokeos.com accounts for 210 000) Around 5 000 downloads per

As I was in Cusco the other week to hold a few speeches at a 3 days conference, I took the opportunity to go to Machu Picchu. This time, I managed to walk to the Intipunku (la Puerta del Sol, The Sun Gate) and take a picture from there, wearing my wonderful - but old now - Dokeos t-shirt from the 2005 User's Day.

I've had a bunch of hunches recently about companies abusing the licensing terms of Dokeos by officially declaring (but only verbally so far) that their product (being Dokeos, but not officially) is not open-source software. The GPL licensing makes it clear that the software derived from GPL software, or any alteration to a GPL software *must* be open-sourced, at least for the people it is distributed to.

One of the terrible things that happen for users, from time to time, is that their usual actions are suddendly made completely unusual by a change of version, because the name (nothing else) of their favourite feature has been changed. We understand that, and we do everything we can to avoid it, but the truth is that some of our naming conventions don't really make sense. For example, a "learning path" is something only a guy with a degree in e-learning understands.

I forgot to mention that in the past, but the free campus (http://campus.dokeos.com) now integrates OpenID recognition. To use it (if you already have an account on the free campus and an OpenID), just log into the campus, go to your My Profile page and add your OpenID in the apropriate field. [caption id="attachment_220" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Campus' profile page"]

http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/the-worst-web-page-in-the-world/ Today, the worst one is not really that bad, but the next one (marked as epileptic NASA site) is really good (or should I say really bad...?)