The 7th of July of 2010 will definitely be a date to remember for the Latin American community of Chamilo. Chamilo P@rty only lasted 2h30, yet we had time to discuss open-source tools to manage the education process (by Yannick Warnier, Director, BeezNest) [slides] present the challenges we face everyday in e-learning (by Sergio Correa, […]
Before I forget all about it, I want to make a note of what happened, what was good and what could be improved for the PHP Day event we organized jointly with Mobile Bridges, another software development company in Lima. The schedule was the following (translated to English for the purpose of this article): 5.00-5.10pm: […]
I’m always surprised at what horrible things web developers can actually do in their work just to use AJAX stuff. I won’t hurt anyone because there would be many useless deaths, but guys… use your head! A user wants interfaces to look nice, but not to hide the whole screen while reloading a single block […]
If you’re a fan of Dokeos and plan to head to South America during the next few days, then you definitely want to get to DOKUDA, the 25th and 26th of June 2009. We’ve been preparing the event for about a month now, and should get about 500 different people every day, over a two-days […]
Today I went to the Escuelab in the centre of Lima to meet with Alberto, Kike Mayorga and Kiko Contreras. My visit was apparently taken with great interest and they’ve video-interviewed me for some time to talk about DOKUDA and my projects with Dokeos and the OLPC (now updated to Chamilo and the OLPC). Apparently, […]
Quickly, because I’m a little out of free time right now, we’ve been lended 6 XO green laptops for 24 months, fo a project we intend to start shortly on a Dokeos-XO integration work. More details: the project proposal: http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41215 the acceptance process report: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Contributors_program/June_5%2C_2009 I’m very happy about that and I can’t wait to […]
Last year, Dokeos Latinoamérica, with the agreement of Thomas, made a deal with Macro Editorial in Peru to edit a series of primary school syllabus under the name “Dokeos Kids”. We also later launched http://www.dokeoskids.com/, which has served to host a few ressources since then. Today, Frank Fuentes, the all-in-one man of Macro, came to […]
This is a quick report on my first trial as a local group coach for the PHP TestFest 2009 for the PHP Perú group. Assistance: 20 people (all more or less PHP developers, some very fresh) Preparation time: about 6 hours of readings, downloading, slides preparation, etc Teaching time: 2 x 1/2h. First one explaining […]
Thanks to an interesting article by Zoe Slattery (who works at IBM UK but is well known in the PHP Community for her work on the QA Team) in PHP Architect, I got into an attempt (at least) at preparing a participation to the PHP TestFest 2009. This article is an attempt at explaining briefly […]
It’s been a while since the idea first came to me, but yesterday we managed, with a bunch of acquaintances, to setup the basic structure so, starting 23rd of May, I’ll be giving an 80-hours long specialized PHP course to 10 pre-selected candidates from Perú, in order for them to prepare for the Zend PHP […]
Tomorrow night I will be giving a speech about Dokeos and the e-learning in Peru to about 450 to 500 teachers and school directors. This is my biggest audience ever, and I must admit I’m a bit stressed (it’s like being a star, really… 500 people is almost an opera audience). This will happen in […]
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 […]
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