Open source project contributions
Unless I want to add a news item to the web site of the company I work for, Catalyst IT, I do not visit the site. That was already the same for the universities where I worked because such sites are...
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Writing the Mahara user manual
My name is Kristina and I like writing documentation. That’s how I started my Pizza Thursday presentation at Catalyst today. And it’s true. With the right motivation and also good tools, it can be an...
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Mahara presentation with a dash of earthquake
July 3, 2012, will stay in my mind for a very long time because it was my worst earthquake experience so far. I was looking forward to my virtual presentation at MaharaUK12 at 10:30 p.m. Just a few...
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“Replace all” in 2 seconds flat
Last Friday at Beer O’Clock, we saw some awesome visualization of data done by Andrew Caudwell, a colleague of mine. I talked to him for a bit later in the evening and learned that he did not only...
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Mahara dreams in Switzerland
After a wonderful meeting with Mahara users in Heidelberg yesterday, I was ready to continue Mahara discussions with Kevin Moilar at Liip in Fribourg. Liip is a Swiss Moodle and Mahara Partner that...
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Working with wiki templates
Working with software developers has a lot of advantages. One is that I always learn something new technology-wise because there is always someone who knows a little trick or has explored something...
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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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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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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 – 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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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 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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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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