Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: Re: interesting chat about moodle / .LRN

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Posted by Jun Yamog on
Hi Al,

I think (b) is important. Sometimes with (b) you can solve (a). Its the community aspect that is hard to do, a big community may also lead into better (b) support funding.

There are also other stuff that moodle will have and is not trivial for .lrn/openacs to do. Such as the moodle community hub.

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=50247
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Community_hub
http://docs.moodle.org/en/Community_hub_technotes

This feature when done will greatly leverage the number of moodle sites. As of now .lrn is still technically better than moodle, which means most features in moodle can be done in .lrn. In about a year or 2, moodle will be able to close the technical gap (mainly CR and permissions) and create new feature gaps (community hub, better enrollment integration) that .lrn will need to catchup.

.lrn needs to figure out how to bring its community closer to one another. I am pretty sure there are lots of .lrn users since there are big installation of .lrn. Having users talking to one another may give some common direction/feature that hopefully may turnout some funding.

Community hubs is a great idea, and goes beyond the technology itself. Anyway, we (.LRN) should focus on increase the community (size and kind). Well, actually, openacs as well needs to increase the community.