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In the open source world a 'fork' is where a project splits into branches. Many times a fork in a popular project is in the 'news' ... sometimes it's not, but rather a slow gradual path taken. Think Moodle's is the latter.
Not a sales ad for RL … but could be significant for Moodle using ISD's …
Seen in a Moodle.org forum called the Lounge.
"Wanted to announce that Moodle Partner, Remote-Learner, is going to release its ELIS for Moodle platform to the Moodle Community as of June 24, 2011. For those wanting more information, you can find the press release at http://bit.ly/l36Kbo "
The BitLy link points to:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/6/prweb8573935.htm
and the PR release …
"Fishersville, VA (PRWEB) June 15, 2011
Remote-Learner.net, Inc, the leading North American and UK Moodle Partner, today announced that the general release of their popular Enterprise Learning Intelligence System (ELIS) for Moodle add-on will be available to the Open Source Moodle community on June 24th, 2011. ELIS for Moodle will be made available from Remote-Learner's repositories as plug-in’s and patches that can be applied to existing Moodle sites. More information on how and where to access this version will be provided closer to the release date.
ELIS for Moodle builds upon Moodle’s powerful learning tools and extends them to meet the needs of enterprise learning administrators. The ELIS platform allows organizations to analyze, manage, and track learning enterprise wide. With these features, ELIS for Moodle creates a robust, learning platform for organizations to maintain and deliver all of their organizations' learning needs.
“The ELIS for Moodle platform has always been an open source product and has been developed under open source GPL licensing. Remote-Learner is now taking the next step to make it available to the Moodle community,” said Jason Cole, Remote-Learner CEO. “Remote-Learner has always been dedicated to Open Source products, and will continue to provide learning services through Moodle and ELIS to our customers and the community.”
The ELIS for Moodle community release will be unsupported but will provide documentation support to developers and organizations. The community release will be updated regularly, along with the Remote-Learner supported subscription version. For organizations who desire commercial support, Remote-Learner continues to provide a full range of support services for the ELIS for Moodle platform. Support services include access to full tech support, custom development, certified and managed releases, training and professional consulting."
And info about ELIS:
http://www.remote-learner.net/elis_story
What does this mean/show about Moodle? For one, Moodle is forking somewhat. Have been following (and tinkering) Moodle.org forums with focus on 2.0 and my general impression is not good (and there are many in M2 forums who have the same impression).
Many problems with 'stock Moodle 2' and repositories (one of the touted new and improved features of Moodle 2). Granted M2 is a complete re-write of code and one should expect issues with .0 versions of anything regardless if it's commercial or open source. The issues appear to be deeper than bug fixes, however.
Anyone out there in TCEA land moved to 2.0? Anyone out there in TCEA land have thoughts/comments?
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