 So thank you, Murray Yeah, I've I've asked Harold to join me on the stage just to make it a little bit more Dynamic the presentation and that you don't have to listen to me for a whole of half an hour So to make it more interesting for you. Yeah, welcome to the Moodle users Association or the MUA as we call it I think it's a good Possibility a good example of how a group or individuals of committed Moodle users can can have more influence and and thriving The community forward to like to what we hope Moodle will be in future and to make it even even better Within the next minutes, I will show you through our services we offer to our members and Possibilities you will have if you at one point join us as an individual or an institutional member Probably the most important and most Viewable thing we are doing for Moodle are the developments are the development projects with every major release of Moodle We are contributing one project one feature one development which is proposed and voted or selected by our members and On on topics where we think or where our member think that Moodle should Get this kind of extra step. Let me show this on two recent examples The first example which will go into Moodle 4.0. So in in November then We will enhance The database activity a little bit. So we have seen that there is a Bigger problem with usability on on database module and some other stuff. And so there was one proposal for a project within the MUA Which finally made the first place in our voting process where we really go forward and help the database activity which is a Which has enormous possibilities, but Basically for almost every lecture. It's a it's kind of a mystery How could you how we could use database to make this a little bit better and the the most recent one and that's a Preview of next year next year in May. We are thinking about enhancing the edit of activity on a course page our members complained about that if you want to move or delete Activities within a course page that you can only do it one by one and We will go forward with HQ and the development to make it possible to select several of them and then bulk editing these Within the course page But we are on the very beginning of this project. So it's just has been voted as a winner by the end of July And now we are in the midst of the negotiation with HQ. How this will be implemented and how we can go on with that Every project developed by by the MUA or with the money from the MUA is Going into core code and that's one of the main benefits Proposing a project with MUA You basically change the core of Moodle and make it a better place And if you have a look at what we did in the last years you see some of the things Which you probably don't even recognize anymore. That's coming from us. One thing is that one of the big enhancements of the UX UI especially with the dashboard in 3.4 or something The recycling bin was a was one of the first ideas we've promoted and Recent ones are the download all functionalities the copy core the course copy functions and all these things as you see It's a big variety and that represents our community as well So there's this chance to really get into whatever you think What are your bothers you to just push forward and find a solution together with HQ And for the next part I would like to give the word to Harold Yeah, thank you Thomas. Hi everybody Yeah, so what exactly is the MUA I mean Thomas gave you already a kind of idea We are a nonprofit organization Our money comes from the memberships Our paid memberships and all the money That comes in is spent on the projects that Thomas just mentioned And Basically, we are you so everyone who's sitting here could be member in the Moodle users association so be it an individual or a representative of an organization We will see that later what different kinds of memberships We have At the same time We're kind of a of a mirror because we We have discussions with moodle HQ on on the direction That that moodle is taking the the future of moodle. How will it look like? It's not that we define it, but We mirror the the way that moodle is taking Yeah, so who are the people behind the MUA? Working there you see us too here on the stage. I see some more here Spread over the room and of course here on the on the slide We're all volunteers that Partly representing Organizations that are members and the MUA partly individuals that are members We are elected by our members And do all the organizational work that's necessary to get these projects that Thomas was talking about done We also have Some statutes and processes that you can find on our on our web page in the in the rules section and we're a very international and diverse Community In the in the MUA as is this conference here. So we have members from almost all over the world Not only in the committee, but as members also and But still you see these white or bluish Blueish places all around the world. There's still room for improvement for for more members that want to get their voice heard and And push moodle and everything around it forward Yeah, why is collective development and this whole idea of these Of these projects that we get funded. Why is that important? You see this citations here, but you can see it every day if you are if you're using moodle Really big open source project where you can see that collaboration works. So we really want you to To become members to get your ideas Discussed with all the other members push forward project ideas and get them funded With with the money that that we collect To really put push things forward And moodle and make it better year by year Sorry Yeah, let's get to the back to the bread and butter of of the MUA the project cycle And I would like to show you within the next slides a little bit more what it does what does it mean and what do we offer? So we do have normally a six-month cycle But it basically started to last month in august one where we within the first month we are seeking for project ideas and Really I'm talking about ideas. You do not have to to submit the solution. It's just this kind of yeah There is this this buck in the tracker what I would like to have solved or I do have an idea that we could whatever do Just submit it as a member you are allowed. Well as an individual member you can submit one proposal as Institutional members you can submit several proposals Just submit it then we have this first voting cycle where we just Arrange it To have the possibility then to talk to HQ what How did the width the first five projects on from this first voting are? Sitting into the perspective and the plans of HQ So we are reviewing it whether it's Size is okay, whether it's financial possible whether it fits into what Moodle wants to do and It's always a kind of a negotiation process to really get the things in in shape that HQ and the developers agree on it On the other hand that the wish and requirements from the users are covered with with the solution Then there's a final voting on on these five projects And there is one winner and this winner up to 11 months later is Finalized and implemented into Moodle core as I showed you The we already have decided what will go into core into core in next May So it's a rather a long process, but as said going into Every Moodle installation worldwide Just the candidates who will go into Moodle 4.3 So in next November, we do have four candidates which are in this actual cycle There is a proposed long improvement of Moodle reportings We have Moodle reportings coming into 4.0 from Moodle workplace, but it's not the whole system It's only a small bits and piece from it. There's a proposal to extend that There is a proposed long PDF annotator assignment type that we can annotate within PDF There is default setting for completions criteria one often requested feature which made it into our Decision our project cycle and another one Somebody's were interested in wiki import and export and he or she could convince a lot of other users to vote for it So it's also in this project cycle Now we are in a reshaping phase in December We will decide which of these four one will go into our project cycle for 4.3 Yeah, and now we come to what it actually means to be member because this project cycle is only one part of the benefits You get if you are a MUA member Back to me Yeah, why should you become a member how you can become a man? How you can become a member I show you later, but first of all, why should you? You see some some of the main things listed here Main thing is because you care about Moodle and how it should look like in the future and the way it should head Another reason is because you care about No, not because yeah because you want to be part of a community and be part of the discussion How and how Moodle is developing and how You know what? How the future of Moodle should look like So what may be a bit more concrete? What are we doing? What are the benefits? You can participate we have meetings with HQ On a monthly basis where we discuss the project cycles and The project ideas, but also other things all around Moodle. We have so-called town halls twice a month where we present and discuss interesting projects Learning scenarios educational scenarios all around all around Moodle So you can do a presentation yourself or just listen to them and be part of the discussion afterwards and get in touch with others and interesting things Then of course you can propose your own project ideas doesn't matter your membership level individual organizational everybody can Bring in an idea and and get it done and of course Creating a better network for yourself so Be it in the town halls or in the various Communication channels we have on telegram Twitter and elsewhere So what now to the hard parts of what does a membership cost if you want to be become a member as I said We have in individual memberships for single persons That will cost you 100 Australian dollars and they then go up Until gold membership with bronze silver and gold being organizational membership So memberships so your organization gets becomes a member and you and maybe some of your colleagues represent The organization in the Mua And Concrete numbers bronze bronze membership will cost you 1,000 Australian dollars silver 2,500 and gold 10,000 each of These dollars represents a point so in the voting's on the project cycles a gold member would have 10,000 points it could spread put on one project on Different projects and the others would have less power so to say Okay, the rest will be told by Yeah, just come back to the to the money numbers Since we are a group of volunteers and the non-for-profit organization The by way biggest part of the money you spend as a member go directly into Development projects and into some other services we get from HQ like web hosting and all the stuff like that We do have only two employees One is for one is even for community administration and the other is Nuria for marketing purposes And so we really try to get as as much as possible money into development so really making the open-source mindset and Even if if you think $100 for an individual member, it's it's not not a cheap membership for most of the people but you can be sure that The biggest part of it will go into a development project So it's this kind of how can I support moodle development with my money and make a bigger impact or If you're an institutional member, you really can think about okay this yearly fee Probably helps us to support what we get some benefit from it So we get open source software and can give something back with that If it goes to the future We are always seeking about what can we do for our members and one of the Things we are discussing at the moment is how we as representatives of moodle users Can sit on a table with HQ and discuss where moodle should go to? So we will have an internal meeting on Thursday night with Martin and then to start from from HQ where we Think think about how we can establish a new level of of getting together also as a representative of moodle users and moodle HQ as well the heart and the core of moodle For sure what we try to keep is just the ideas of yes I have an idea. I have a project. I have a something to to be developed and Give you the chance that with your membership of one hundred Australian dollar you can make your dream come true into moodle core Not only in your installation, but all other one hundred sixty thousand installations worldwide If you have other topics where we can support you tonight at five o'clock I recommend you to take a beer in the community wrap-up session and then come to us to the I think it's the catalyst room note the the Trezi plunt room and Over there. Yeah, and meet us in our Open discussion. We will be there most of the community members all of the community members here former and Recent one some of the members and we won't try to discuss what we should change. Where should we head with our Roadmap of the MUA in the next years to make a bigger impact and help you to make Moodle and our institution better because one of the thing is as If we can increase the number of members we can increase the number of projects We can increase our influence and we can increase the voice of users towards the development And for this one we need you Two questions which I would like to ask you here now, but also later at five o'clock We do have two town halls each month where we sit together and listen to a presenter who presents If it comes from HQ some of the HQ projects We had one from Suriname presenting how he deals with Moodle Do you have any topics you're interested in and you would like to hear about in a MUA town hall and other things do you have some project ideas? Let's share them and Here are all the important links URL email Facebook Twitter, and there's one additional thing If you meet us at the speakers corner, which is kind of opposite there in this area with the sponsors There you can talk as said this morning talk about a topic you want to talk about for 15 minutes, but even probably more important if you make a Picture of yourself submitted to our Twitter with the right hashtag you find there you can win one year membership One year personal membership so just meet us there in every break and in the lunch break as well and You probably become a member for free within the next year. So I'm open for questions or we are open for questions Thank you Thomas and yeah, actually, I am an individual Member of the MUA on on a personal level I have since it began and and what I do really appreciate is my 100 votes that I can decide where I want to put those votes and it gives me a feeling of power there too And yeah, go and get your photo taken in the photo frame. It's quite fun Even if you don't win it's it's a nice souvenir of the mood So if we have questions if you put your hands up and then Matt will come around with the microphone It's not really a question. It's just a comment on the the feature that was voted There's a great plug-in called mass action that does exactly that it you can select activities hide them And you know delete them move them in bulk mass action But it's a block, right? Yeah, that's a block. Yes. So obviously your features will be better because then you can select within a Not not not being block-dependent, but yeah I'm aware of that and I hope that we can take some some of the ideas from there into into what we Try to to implement directly. Yeah, and I had that plug-in It was the development stop and I had some of our guys now. It's it's available for 3.9 or 3.11. So it's it's But like let's connect afterwards. Okay. Sure. Thank you Hi, thanks for the great presentation So one question I'd like to ask is let's just say I have the admirable Inspiration to get on to the comedy you like get voted in Are there any requirements to get voted on to the comedy and also? How long is the committee cycle like how often do you actually? replace committee members As far as Okay, I forgot the first part of the question. Sorry Yeah, so how can you get elected into into the committee we have yearly so-called annual general meetings a GM's where every member can attend or should attend and Then you have proposals for for the comedy and An election who will be then one of the ten representatives In the committee. We've also four officers Thomas for example is our chair Who gets the chair position who will be the treasurer who will be the secretary this is Decided afterwards within the comedy. So the members elect and then the Yeah, these officer positions are Discussed in in the comedy the second part was about the the cycle, right? I Think it's two two years So you do not have elections each year, but if a comedy member Says I do not have time anymore You would need to reelect a new member, but in general it's two years so the first missing part was if there are any Requirements when it comes to membership level for being voted on to the committee. No, no any any members of individual or representative of an organization can be can become Committee member awesome. Thank you very much in Japan we have a Moodle Association and Every year we have a contest of best new plugins and Then of those best three or four plugins who sometimes receive funds One of them goes to the Moodle Association Users Association and it's very exciting to see that kind of stage move up from one country from particular needs and I would I would encourage every country to make a Moodle Association and Then have a contest or have a have a conference where you judge some of them And then Submit them to the Moodle Users Association for inclusion in core. Yeah So kind of question of sub chapters and we were very open of that discussion So if you have a community within your country within your language area Please get in touch with us that we can start discussion of how we could help you to have a better impact a better connection to to others who do the same with you and one thing just how to get committee member we had the AGM in September this year earlier this this month and Volunteering is not an easy business for the most of them. They do it after work time and So we do have all year some some Leaving people from the committee because they just say well, I've invested for example Jeff who was member From the first year on the committee. So for eight years. He was committee member He just decided the month ago to to leave the committee but stay as a as a member in the MUA and Actually, we do have at the moment one of the ten membership member seats of the committee is free So if you decide today that you want to get MUA member Please get in touch with me and we can discuss whether you just jump up to the committee if you want to committee gives you an additional chance to Meet Mary meet Martin meet anybody who is in charge and Moodle. So But just to get back to the roots. I would love to be Representing many many more Moodlers from around the world and to help make Moodle better Because that's all what we want at the end of the day. Thank you very much