Got back from the third day of the Sydney Moodle Conference this afternoon… chock full of massive ideas to take back to school. The conference actually provided a high encouragement to me to think creatively about Open Source development and software in general. One project we’ll be closely following is the Mahara ePortfolio system, being developed mainly out of Catalyst IT in Welllington, NZ. Those guys really are the stuff when it comes to developing and supporting OSS. They’re major users of Git too – can’t wait to get into my dev environment and start managing my source with git – seems like a really funky tool – and its ability to properly manage merges with Moodle CVS is absolutely GOLD!

Over the next little while I’ll be looking to profile some elements of our school’s transition of Moodle from Windows Server 2003 and IIS to Linux. I decided today (mainly under advisement from some who know better) to look at shifting our environment to PostgreSQL. I think as we move forward its better stability etc will be very strong assets to us.

Off to Flinders Christian Community College in the morning (at the airport at 6am!) to present to them on using Moodle and LMSes in general.

The to-do list keeps piling up… but it’s all so damn fun!