Mahara 18.04: New privacy features
Last Friday, 6 April 2018, we, the Mahara core team at Catalyst, released Mahara 18.04. It was half a year of intense work especially getting the GDPR features in to help institutions in their...
View ArticleGetting the hang of hanging out (part 2)
A couple of days ago I experienced some some difficulties using YouTube Live Events. So today, I was all prepared: Had my phone with me for 2-factor auth so I could log into my account on a second...
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Getting the hang of hanging out (part 1)
Living in New Zealand, far, far away from the rest of the world (except maybe Australia), means that I’m doing a lot of online conference presentations, demonstrations, and meetings. I’ve become...
View ArticleMahara Hui @ AUT recap
I’m playing catch-up and working my way backwards of my events. Yesterday, I wrote a bit about the NZ MoodleMoot on 5 October 2016. Just a day before that, AUT organized a local half-day Mahara Hui,...
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One-day of Moodling
Last week, the 10th New Zealand MoodleMoot took place at NorthTec in Whangarei. After a night of torrential rain, the community day, the one that I attended on 5 October 2016, brought bright sunshine...
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Engaging software requirements review
A few months ago Catalyst was asked by a potential client to go through the project requirements with them in a workshop. There were about 120 requirements with the majority being “must have”, a few...
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Growing Mahara community
For 2013, our chief Mahara designer Evonne created a series of Mahara merchandise with the Mahara logo in various incarnations. We have the plain Mahara logo, but also various Mahara characters...
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Scary document morning
When it comes down to working with text documents collaboratively, I’m a happy user of the track changes and comment functionalities because they allow people working together on a document to easily...
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High school students contribute to Mahara
This year, Catalyst organized the fifth annual Open Source Academy. It took place in our Wellington HQ from 5 to 16 January 2015. It was a full house again with 23 students. They came primarily from...
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The power of “Recent”
For several weeks now I have been using a functionality of my file browser that I had ignored religiously in the past. You see, Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system, comes with Nautilus, which is the...
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Have your Mahara with music
Today was a big day as we released a new version of Mahara. It’s version 1.10 that contains a whole bunch of new exciting features and also bug fixes. Usability improvements are made alongside new...
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Amazing CodeCamp
Last Friday, 8 August 2014, I had the fortune to be able to attend the demo night of CodeCamp in East Palo Alto (EPA). CodeCamp welcomes you The power of coding CodeCamp is an initiative by...
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Wishes for Mahara
Back in March, which seems to be already so long ago, we organized the first Mahara conference in New Zealand, Mahara Hui. On the first day of the hui (gathering, assembly in Te Reo Māori) we asked...
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Come together for Mahara Hui 2014
Over the years, Mahara users in New Zealand and also Australia have been asking us why there was no Mahara conference like the folks in the UK have with Mahara UK. I tried to mumble in my non-existent...
View ArticleSummer of Tech 2013 Hackfest
I have a bit of catching up to do, but so as not to get even further into the past, let’s start with the most recent event: the Summer of Tech Hackfest on 31 August 2013. Summer of Tech is a great...
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Pizza Thursday Pebble
A few weeks ago I received my red Pebble watch, Kickstarter edition. Several of my colleagues already had a black Pebble, which were delivered earlier, and we now also have three red Pebbles in the...
View ArticleMMMup – Going mobile
In this third post on the Moodle-Mahara Meetup in Adelaide on a sunny and warm 8 May 2013, I want to focus on my presentation about using mobile devices with Mahara. I had chosen this topic because...
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MMMup – Brainstorming plugin improvements
The Moodle-Mahara Meetup in Adelaide on 8 May 2013 was the perfect setting to talk with users of Mahara and Moodle about a plugin that is frequently used by those that have both platforms. Though we...
View ArticleMMMup – Design workshop
Last week was summer in Adelaide and the perfect setting for the first Moodle-Mahara Meetup. Organizers Allison Miller, Carole McCulloch and Box Hill Institute did a fantastic job pulling everything...
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Of release, stickers, T-shirts and more
This is a tale of Mahara told in two parts. 1.7 release One of the great things of the past months is our latest release of Mahara. We are up to version 1.7 and the 6-monthly release cycle is tough....
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