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Bugfixing marathon

Start: 27/04/2013

End: 27/04/2013

Timezone: Europe/Brussels

Free software is a great gift which benefits all users. It condenses the effort of hundreds of people who selflessly contribute for others to enjoy an advanced technological system for online training as Chamilo.

But if all people that contributes stop doing so, and only users remain... then free software model does not work. We should all give something to continue growing, otherwise we all lose. Schools from socially and economically disadvantaged areas lose, the small and medium enterprises that will not have otherwise capacity to buy expensive private online training systems lose, hundreds of social projects that use Chamilo to distribute their training lose ... This is why we ask for help.

There are hundreds of ways for you to collaborate (will tell you in another post) but today we beg you help for the bugfixing marathon.

Submitted by Noa on Wed, 24/04/2013 - 19:06

Chamilo and online training profitability

Start: 04/03/2013 12:00

Timezone: Europe/Brussels

There is a new 'Wels' coming on the 5th of march 2013. Check their website to see all the details about a session dedicated to Chamilo: http://eduevazquez.com/WELS/event-program/chamilo-lms/

The event will be held online and will be recorded for those who can not attend.

Submitted by Noa on Mon, 04/03/2013 - 18:24

New Chamilo logo

The Chamilo Association has now a new logo easier to print and to use for merchandising. Hope you like it. If you need an editable source in svg format, please contact communication@chamilo.org

Submitted by Noa on Wed, 27/02/2013 - 11:50

Wels: Chamilo-Sakai-Blackboard and Moodle face to face

Start: 19/02/2013 12:00

Timezone: Europe/Brussels

Tomorrow, we will have Chamilo, Moodle, Sakai and Blackboard face to face on an online videoconference to higlight the best features of each LMS. The event is in spanish.

More information here: http://eduevazquez.com/WELS/event-program/chamilo-sakai-blackboard-moodl...

Submitted by Noa on Mon, 18/02/2013 - 17:13

New Chamilo local group in Guatemala

Congratulations to the whole community. Since today we have an official local group of Chamilo in Guatemala.

To contact them, please send an e-mail to: chamiloguate@gmail.com

Submitted by Noa on Fri, 01/02/2013 - 20:50

Chamilo LMS 1.9.4 has been released!

Chamilo LMS 1.9.4 - Puebla - 2013/01/18

Version 1.9.4 of Chamilo is named "Puebla", after the Mexican city of Puebla, a large city very close to México D.F. and is considered an "extension" of the capital city in many ways. Puebla has very nice blend of precolombine and spaniard architecture. All in all, we felt like Puebla, in tremendous growth, was a close image to Chamilo 1.9 on its way to 1.10.

Chamilo LMS 1.9.4 comes with around 140 improvements (code fixes, small interface changes, stability and speed increases) on top of Chamilo LMS 1.9.2. Upgrading from 1.9.0 or 1.9.2 to 1.9.4 is dead easy, so don't wait too long before you upgrade.

In more details, 1.9.4 brings you the following new/improved stuff:

Teachers can now generate an export in PDF all the certificates of their students at once (and print them as one big file)
Improvement to the attendances tool, allowing you to mark "late" students and warning you about overlaps
Stylesheets can now be uploaded *and downloaded* directly from the admin page, so happy editing!
Exercises now generate score reports by questions categories (nice!)
You can now group questions by the same media resource (a large text, a video, etc)
LP image is now shown as a starter icon on the course homepage if you want to
You can now create student classes through CSV import
General reports now show IP address to identify where this student was connecting from (you know... his exam seemed so good, for once...!?)

DOWNLOAD IT FROM HERE: https://chamilo.googlecode.com/files/chamilo-1.9.4.zip

CHECK THE INSTALLATION GUIDE: http://stable.chamilo.org/documentation/installation_guide.html

Submitted by Noa on Fri, 18/01/2013 - 13:34

Happy 3rd birthday Chamilo!

Submitted by Noa on Fri, 18/01/2013 - 13:30

End of the year event

Start: 29/12/2012 17:00

End: 29/12/2012 22:15

Timezone: Europe/Brussels

The Chamilo Association is organizing an online event for the 29th of december 2012 in three languages.

Check all the details here: http://www.chamilo.org/navidad-2012/

Submitted by Noa on Sat, 22/12/2012 - 19:54

Vote for Chamilo e-learning in the awards of PortalProgramas!!

On 6 November in PortalProgramas.com voting began to choose the best free software of 2012 in different types of categories. Chamilo LMS has been nominated in this 4th edition of the awards that recognize the free software and all the work and cooperation of the people who make it possible.

We encourage you to vote for Chamilo LMS and help you move forward with this project that is also yours ...!

Vote for Chamilo e-learning here!!

Voting will close on December 31, 2012. You can check the contest rules here.

Submitted by alberto_contidos on Tue, 11/12/2012 - 12:04

Spread the word about Chamilo!

This summer, help us to spread the word about Chamilo. Take a picture at your holiday place and make the word Chamilo visible in the picture. Then send us your picture to any of our Twitter or Facebook accounts:

Twitter: @chamilo_news or @chamilonoticias or @chamilofrance (do not forget the use of #chamilo in your content)

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chamilolms

We will make a draw among all the participants and the winner will get a free chamilo LMS hosting. The draw will take place when this summer campaing ends: 30th of september 2012. To enter this draw, the pictures must be submmiteed to any of the official social media listed above.

Submitted by Noa on Thu, 05/07/2012 - 13:39