Kineo Open Source has donated $3000AUS to Moodle, the open source learning management system. This will be put into the development fund run by the Moodle Trust, which contracts programmers to work on Moodle, to help fund the development of the Site-Wide Groups feature in Moodle 2.0 which is due at the end of 2009.
Kineo Open Source recognises that it is in the best interests of our business to contribute fully to the Open Source community - whether as users, bug reporters, contributors or supporters - in order that the products Kineo Open Source support continue to innovate and improve. But more than that, we're not just contributing because it makes business sense or because we want to be accepted, we're doing it because we want to.
Kineo Open Source aims to interact with open source projects and communities in a variety of ways including:
- Contributing code to the project whether in the form of fixes, extensions or customisations
- Contributing documentation to the project whether amends and improvements to official project documentation or their own tutorials
- Contributing financial donations to the project whether as discretionary payments or as part of a formal partnership agreement
- Sharing knowledge, lessons learned and best practice information using project forums or mailing lists
Mark Aberdour from Kineo Open Source says:
Kineo Open Source is continually using Moodle and Open Source Software in new and innovative ways to push the software and its abilities further. With this donation we are contributing to a new feature in Moodle that is one of the most popular feature requests from our corporate customers. We will continue to support and help with efforts to grow and evolve Moodle, which in the long-term will enable greater choice, flexibility and innovation for all users of learning management systems.
For more information about Moodle 2.0 see http://docs.moodle.org/en/Roadmap
For more information about Moodle donations see http://moodle.org/donations/
Kineo Open Source Supports Moodle to Develop Site-Wide Groups
Kineo Open Source has donated $3000AUS to Moodle, the open source learning management system
