Forum LAMS Newsletter: Newsletter 55, 11th Mar, 07

By: James Dalziel

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European LAMS Conference 2007 - Call for Presentations/Papers

The 2007 European LAMS Conference will be held on the 5th of July at the University of Greenwich in London, UK. Information is available from the conference website at
http://www.lamsfoundation.org/lams2007/

The Call for Presentations/Papers is now out, further details are available at
http://www.lamsfoundation.org/lams2007/papers.htm

Proposals are due by Monday May 7th.

LAMS job opportunities

In the coming month, I expect there to be job opportunities for both Junior and Senior Java Programmers to work on LAMS/RAMS; as well as potential opportunities for Educational Designers. The positions would be based at Macquarie University in Sydney. If you are interested, please email James Dalziel - james@melcoe.mq.edu.au

LAMS 2.0.1 now out

LAMS 2.0.1 includes improvements and lots of bug fixes as reported to the LAMS technical community. It also includes all language files up to March 9th, 2007. A Windows installer is available now, with a Unix/Linux installer to follow soon. See
http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lamsdocs/Windows+Installer+Help

Many thanks to Luke Foxton for his excellent work on the Windows installer/upgrader. Thanks also to all the development team, the translators and everyone in the community for your patience and support! For details of the improvements and bug fixes, see
https://bugs.lamsfoundation.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=10030&styleName=Html&projectId=10020&Create=Create

LAMS rollout at University of Cadiz, Spain

Following a successful trial, the University of Cadiz in Spain is moving to a full rollout of LAMS. For those who can read Spanish, see the article at
http://www.uca.es/web/estudios/noticias/nt_2007_02_23_01

LAMS Community now over 2000 users - statistics update

Since the official launch of the LAMS Community (30-Sept-2005) we have:
* 2008 users from 84+ countries
* Translations to 23 languages with more than 40 translators
* 118 shared sequences, downloaded 3630 times.
* 2429 discussions forum messages
* 2500 average requests per day

Thanks to everyone who has helped make the LAMS Community a success!

Wikipedia Founder seminars in Australia

education.au will be hosting seminars around Australia in late April with Jimmy Wales, Founder of Wikipedia. Details of the seminars are available at
http://www.educationau.edu.au/jahia/Jahia/challenging

CD-LOR Project - request for feedback from Colin Milligan

"The JISC Funded CD-LOR project (community dimensions of learning object repositories) has been identifying and analysing the factors that influence practical uptake and implementation of learning object (LO) repositories within a range of different learning communities.

The project has prepared a set of Structured Guidelines for setting up and evaluating Learning Object Repositories. These are currently at an advanced draft stage. We now wish to collect feedback on the content and utility of these guidelines from the wider e-Learning and Repositories communities. The guidelines are available from:
http://www.academy.gcal.ac.uk/cd-lor/DraftStructuredGuidelines.pdf

We have created an online survey to collect views on the draft guidelines and this is available from:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=337873365947 We would also welcome feedback by email directly to the project team (send email to: colin.milligan@strath.ac.uk), by March 15th if possible, please."

Posted by James Dalziel