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We have decided to organize Chamiluda Madrid 2013, the international Chamilo User Days event, in Madrid on the 17th and 18th of October 2013. In order to make this event a success and to give anyone a chance to present their ideas, use cases or developments, we decided to organize a call for papers open to any user of Chamilo.

Check here all the info regarding this call for papers.

Dear user, as you might know, here at Chamilo we currently have two branches: Chamilo LMS and Chamilo LCMS Connect. This piece of news is related only  to Chamilo LCMS Connect exclusively. Both branches have independent releases and both the LCMS and the LMS teams will keep publishing new releases for each branch.

This being said, this week the new Chamilo LCMS Connect  3 is released.
Codename: ‘Bradypodion’:  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradypodion).

After a test run of nearly a year in several institutions  the release is finally a fact.

The basic concept is connectivity:
   - connect with your favorite sites on your adaptable homepage
   - publish your content in an LMS
   - collaborate with peers

You can testrun ‘Bradypodion’ on: http://trylcms.chamilo.org.

More information and documentation on http://lcms.chamilo.org or via http://www.chamilo.org.

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

From the 22nd of February to the 21st of March 2012, Yannick Warnier, one of the leaders of the project, will be on tour in Europe, speaking about Chamilo. Most of his conferences will be free and open to all, so don't miss an opportunity to get out and learn more about the project:

• 22 and 23rd of February: stand and conferences at ExpoElearning, Madrid, Spain - see details
• 24th of February: introduction to Chamilo development, Universidad Juan Carlos III de Madrid, Spain - see details
• 1st of March, 6.30pm: Conference "Chamilo, c'est pas le Pérou" (French) in Brussels, Belgium - see details (registration required)
• 2nd and 5th of March: Meetings with Chamilo customers, Brussels, Belgium - if you would like to meet him, send us an e-mail
• 8th - see details (registration required)of March: Chamilo community day, Brussels, Belgium see details (registration required)
• 9th of March: Chamilo General Asembly, Brussels, Belgium see details (registration required)
• 13th of March: Chamilo administrator training, full-day, Brussels, Belgium - see details
• 14th of March: Chamilo teacher training, full-day, Brussels, Belgium - see details
• 15th of March: visit to the e-learning expo, Paris, France
• 19th of March: Conference at Haute École Albert Jacquard, Namur, Belgium - see details

Yannick is rarely organizing a European tour for Chamilo, so don't hesitate to write to us if you think you can help organize a small conference in your region.