Hello everyone,
I am very happy to announce that Joel Aufrecht has been hired by the .LRN consortium to manage the next couple of releases of the dotLRN system.
Joel has done a great job in OpenACS and is well respected by all in the community.
We are working in a number of Package Maturity Standards that will satisfy the needs of current and future users, that are realistic in the short term but have a long term impact in the quality of the framework. Joel will be posting these standards for comments in the next day or so.
A timetable for the next release is also being drafted. We know that people has been asking this for a while know, but a few things needed to happen first.
A very important not one this is the need for everyone in the community to contribute. Institutions and consutants that benefit from a better software are asked to become members of the consortium.
The financial contributions of members are paying for Joel's work.
There is a huge momentum in the community, with a large number of new projects comming up and I am sure that this is a big step forward for improving the overall quality of the system.
cheers
Rafael
