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On 27th of January 2012 the Chamilo User Group for Belgium- The Netherlands - Luxemburg officially started. The new Chamilo2.1 ALDRIN release and its introduction in several organisations was the main item of this kick-off. Chamilo 2.1 is reliable collaboration software for the next generation!

Next general meeting on 23rd of March 2012. Free subscription for BENELUG on: chamilo.benelug@gmail.com

Pictures of the event avaliable here: https://picasaweb.google.com/109778045636974626575/BENELUGKickOffMeeting...

The Chamilo Community Day event is now open for registration, and will be held on Thursday, March 8th 2012 from 10h00 - 17h00 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

This event is organized to give our community the opportunity to provide us with feedback and suggestions to improve the operation of the Chamilo Association and its software.
We will start this event with the presentation of the Annual Report 2011 where the Board members will give you an overview of all things that happened inside our community during the last year. This will include more information about our users/members, software development progress & projects defined early in 2011.

In the afternoon we will organize 2 discussion groups to talk about several topics and will try to provide the Chamilo Assocation with improvements and suggestions.
The outcome of these discussions will be integrated into several project ideas for 2012. These project proposals will be presented and discussed at the General Assembly 2012 that will be held on Friday, the 9 of March in Brussels.

10 th January 2012 - ICT-day In Geel (Belgium)

Full house for the Chamilo 2 workshop. Participants experience the new Chamilo 2 'live' : they create, publish and share their own content objects. Many schools are planning migration to Chamilo 2!

10th January 2012 - ICT-day In Geel (Belgium)

Many interested professionals visit the Chamilo stand for a hands-on Chamilo2 demo. The visitors are actively involved in the demonstration. Content objects created and published on demand.

Chamilo LMS is the winner of the contest organized by Portal Programas.com in the category "Best growing potential software". In the name of the whole Chamilo community, we want to thank PortalProgramas for the financial support that represents this award and that will allow, for sure, that the Chamilo Association continues spreading the word about Chamilo all over the world.

Dear Chamilo user,

The year 2011 was a challenging year for the Chamilo organization: coordinating the release of new versions with many interesting features, further extending the association, getting the support of local user groups and further developing and exploring new technologies for the future.

In order to do this, in early 2011, the General Assembly defined a number of projects that should help us reach those objectives:

• Website rework
• Technical infrastructure (mailing, website, demo portals, free campus)
• Organisation of the Chamilo Users Day 2011,
• More added value for all association members
• Strengthening links to the OLPC project
• Develop local groups
• Get more open to new markets
• Extend and develop new end-user documentation
• Extend and develop new developer documentation
• SCORM Engine analysis
• Database profiling and stress testing
• A better marketing Plan

2011 is over now, and we are preparing for a new and exciting Chamilo year. It is time to evaluate what happened this year and express all the dreams and desires you have for the Chamilo software suite as well as the Chamilo association in 2012.

Your feedback will be included in the process of defining new projects during the General Assembly (9 March 2012). If you have been involved in promoting or improving the Chamilo environment over the last year, now's your chance to get more involved: tell us what you've done and ask to be included in the decision process by being accepted as an effective member!

So do not hesitate to let us know what you expect from the association and from the software in 2012 forward.

Send all your ideas and feedback back to communication@chamilo.org before January the 30th, 2012 or tweet us at @chamilo_news!

Kind Regards,

Board of Directors - Chamilo Association

Gemeenteplein 23 - 9090 Melle - Belgium

IBAN: BE 43 9794 3491 8501 | BIC: ARSPBE22

www.chamilo.org | info@chamilo.org

Dear user: thank you for using Chamilo, it is great to have you around and we hope you are enjoying this free platform as much as we enjoy being able to help you.

The free Chamilo campus is victim of its own success! In only little more than one year since its launch, the 18th of January 2010, it has accumulated more than 62,000 users and 9,200 courses. This is impressive, and we are sure it is even more impressive to see the impact your courses have on people's lives around the world.

The Chamilo Association announces the 1st International Chamilo Users Day to be held in Brussels (Belgium), Monday 10th of March 2011 (together with E-Learningday "Create and Share"). The aim of the Chamilo Users Day is to gather together users of Chamilo from around the world to share their experiences with peers and to learn from other people´s experiences.