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04/11/06 08:13 AM
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Announcing LAMS V2.0

11th April, Oxford, UK. The LAMS Foundation is pleased to announce the public release of LAMS V2.0 alpha. This is a major milestone for LAMS, as it represents the initial release of the new architecture and platform for future LAMS development for the next 3-5 years.

The announcement of LAMS V2.0 was made by Professor James Dalziel in a presentation at the OSS Watch "Open Source and Sustainability" conference at Said Business School in Oxford, UK. Details and downloads are available from
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Home

"This is a great achievement by the LAMS development team," said Professor James Dalziel, Leader of LAMS. "The new version provides a platform for innovation and scalability for LAMS into the future. We look forward to continuing our development and working with other developers around the world to build the next generation of e-learning innovation using LAMS."

The new version is ready for software developers to download, compile and run, and to begin exploring how to contribute to ongoing development of LAMS V2.0 via the public CVS. As an alpha release, it is not yet ready for use by teachers, but a teacher ready version will be available later in 2006 after further development and testing.

LAMS V2.0 was previously known as LAMS V1.1, because when the development began 18 months ago, it was initially planned as a partial redevelopment. However, as the project progressed it became a ground-up rewrite, based on the many valuable lessons learned over the first four years of LAMS development. With this initial public announcement of the new version, it was an appropriate stage to rename it to recognise it as a major new release.

Among the many new features of LAMS V2.0, it includes the ability to run in languages other than English. In the two weeks since the release of translation facilities, over 15 translations are underway, including Italian, French, German, Chinese, Korean, Norwegian, Maori and many others. Further details about new features are available at http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/LAMS+2.0+Feature+List

Newsletter Update

I've been traveling the past week, so I've combined last week's and this week's newsletter into this important announcement today. The next newsletter will be on Sunday 23rd April.

Posted by James Dalziel

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