 It was such a pleasure to be back here in Australia, back home, where we can just talk Aussie and a lot of you are regulars. Anybody here who's new, first time at a Moodle Moodle, wow, geez, like 50% or more at least. That's so great. That's so good. So thanks for coming along. I think we've outdone ourselves with Moodle branding at this Moodle. That's pretty insane. We're going to see like a hundred logos at once, even on the laptop. So look, I'm going to talk about what I've been doing lately the last year, quite a lot of stuff since the last conference here in Australia, which was in Brisbane about nine months ago, company, what we're doing basically. And then start getting to the future stuff, which is where things get interesting because we're living in very interesting times. So I come from Woot Woot about here. I am Australian, but I'm half German and half Greek. My parents are German and Greek. So I've always sort of regarded myself as a citizen of the planet. Of course we are, right? It's just a little ball. We all live on there. And lately I have been going around that ball a lot. So last year I did 380,000 kilometres. It's about 10 to 12 times around. And 64 cities, 50% of my time I was on the road. So I'm getting pretty good at packing. There's a photo there. That's the UK Moodle. That's me with some gorillas in Rwanda, which I know it sounds really stereotyped but it is an amazing experience. Yeah, that's over in the Philippines and that's France and this is the Australia Mood last year and that's Africa, South Africa. That's the Barcelona office, the Moodle office. And I'm going to a lot of Moodle conferences, but I'm also going to a lot of non-Moodle conferences and having a lot of meetings with various organisations and things. The reason I can do that is because Moodle is very pervasive in the world. In fact, in many places, much more so than here in Australia. That's the current sort of statistics. We have 106,000 plus registered Moodle sites and they're only the ones who registered. But really interesting is looking at the deltas here because in about two months they increase something like this. It's like 3 million new users every two months. 8 million forum posts and 200 million quiz questions. So it's a lot of infrastructure, a lot of responsibility on the project and it also means that I can get a meeting with a lot of people. I can just say, hey, let's have a meeting and they go, oh yes, oh yeah Moodle, we heard of that and I can get in the door. So there's a lot of doors I can get into. And so I'm starting to really use that and start to think how best can I use that. These were some statistics from mid last year. It's around 60% of higher ed is using Moodle globally. And mostly you hear news that comes out of the US because the US dominate the English-speaking internet and so you'll often hear about that. But what you don't hear is all of that. And I'm visiting a lot of that. So let's go on a bit of a trip. I haven't planned anything for this. I'm just going to free form it. Let's go look around the world a little bit. So this year I've spent a lot of time in around Asia and in Indonesia and in Taiwan and Korea and Japan and the Philippines and China. Very interesting what's happening. It's hard to generalize. All those countries are so different. But if I generalized a little bit, it's that there's a lot of change going on. There is a lot of people trying to upskill very quickly, like as a nation. And there's a lot of training initiatives going on. And there's a lot of not only Moodle, a lot of local products, a lot of things being tried. There's a lot of centralization, a lot of SaaS platforms popping up and all sorts of government initiatives and it's incredible. But there's not many other software products in the world that can talk to the education ministry in Cambodia and say, hey, why don't you run a Moodle Mood? And they say, oh, that's a good idea, yes, we will. Because we are an open source project, it works. Gosh, China is interesting. Anyone been to China recently? A couple of people. I was amazed actually, you walk in the streets, it's just silent. There's cars and bikes everywhere, but they're all electric now. It's quiet and clean. Super, it's like going into the future. It was surprising actually the level of tech around the place. Also, they don't have Google much, they don't really use it. They don't use Android apps, they don't use Apple that much either. They have WeChat and maybe a couple of other apps. And the WeChat app does everything. So they have apps inside that app. If I wanted to give you 10 bucks, you just open your WeChat app and you have the QR code and I pay you 10 bucks a meter, well, not dollars obviously. But they're working out a lot of things. Of course, the government's hand is in everything. And the surveillance thing going on there is quite an interesting story. And there is Moodle everywhere. I discovered in Beijing the world's biggest Moodle site. Only a couple of months ago. Two million active users, like they have three million users total, but there's one university has two million users. 20,000 users are accessing their Moodle site in any given moment. Like concurrent users. Like it's enormous scale. So if you worry about where the Moodle can scale, there's a very good example right there. They're holding the Moodle Moots next year, if you want to go, in Beijing. And we thought, well, let's go for 1,000 people. Why not? Because there's so many people. There's so much going on there. India. Again, there's a lot of Moodle too. Funny, the Moodle Moots there tend to be all mostly developers. There's like 50, 60% small companies and consultants all doing lots of little things for people. The universities and people who work, who are teaching, can't afford to come to Moodle. They can't afford to travel across India to come to a conference. So we finally realised that second, third time around. So next year what we're going to do is a travelling road show. We're going to have like a one day event and maybe five or six of them and go to different cities. And I'll probably get a t-shirt printed up with a tour. I've always wanted to be a rock and roller. And we'll do a rock and roll tour through India. Africa. It's like 90% Moodle there in so many places. And I haven't been there so much. Rwanda. Beautiful country actually. Australia could learn a lot. This is something I've noticed a lot in these countries that we often characterise as developing and they need our help. Jeez, we need their help. Like when I go to Rwanda, the place is so damn nice and they're advanced in ways that I wouldn't have expected. So, you know, they had a genocide in 94. A million people killed in a hundred days with machetes and pushing holes and things like that. Like how horrible. Just comprehend the scale of that. A million people in a hundred days. And a lot of you probably remember it on the news but it was kind of a blink, right? Just kind of blinked by on the news. There's a few pictures. I don't think we really grasped it. When I was there, I could really see it. And the whole country is reeled back from that experience which was created by Europeans, incidentally. They've been in the French over 20 years. And they've gone, no. We're going to change how things work here. And they do things like, for example, every month they have a community service day and everybody from the president down gets out in the streets on a Saturday morning and they pick up rubbish. They dig trenches for optic fibres. They paint schools. They do work in their local communities. Then at lunch, they all brought their lunch. Groups of two, three hundred they sit down and have lunch together and they pass a megaphone around and everybody can have a bit of a spray about what they think should be done next month. And this kind of community building and community spirit, I mean, wouldn't it be awesome if we did that here? Like we are doing it here. We've got 300 people here for this. But imagine if we did it every month with our neighbors. You know. Instead, we have, you know, you just got to look at your Twitter feed. Look at what's going on in the world, right? It could be probably fixed with a little bit more humanity. This year, later this year, we are having a conference in Cote d'Ivoire in Abidjan. And that's going to be very, really exciting actually. Europe is Europe. Very, very established moodle stuff in Europe. Actually, tonight I'm flying to France. So this evening for the French moodle moot. So I won't be able to stay for the party and I'm really pissed off about that. But I have to get there. Same thing happened last year, actually. I hope some of you might remember. South America is again, so much going on. There is a there are some very, very large things here. So in well, Central America, Mexico, there's a university called UNAM that's been using moodle for 10 years. They have something like 350,000 students. And they're very, very capable. They've become a kind of a moodle service organization for Mexico. They're helping all these other universities with it and they have very advanced use. I dropped a tweet. Mexico City, if anyone wants to get together, let's do it in a week. And the next Saturday we have 200 people, nearly this, in a room and we had an impromptu moodle moot on a Saturday morning at the university and then we all went out afterwards. It was the day of the dead, you know, where everyone dresses up like skeletons and stuff. It's insane. Yeah, so I just don't want to go there anymore. No, I do. I love the people there, but God, they're having a lot of trouble, aren't they? I hope they can sort that out. Anyway, I won't go on about this too long. Let's get on with the presentation here. So what's happening in the company? We are pretty spread out over the world. We are now numbering 80 people in moodle headquarters. Almost doubled in the last year. There's a lot of new people, a lot of new faces and a lot of reorganising of how we do things, and I wanted to explain a little bit of that. We have two major officers now in Perth and in Barcelona and people scattered all over the place. So we have to work at being a company in that situation. Everybody's remote, basically. Like, we always have to pretend we're all remote all the time. Even in the offices, we work online all the time. And that's how work is now. So we've actually really relaxed our whole rules about when you have to come to the office. Basically, no one has to come to the office at all. We're actually downsizing our Perth office. We're still having one, but we're trying to allow everyone to work from wherever they are all the time. And, uh... Look, it's not easy, but it's just inevitable that we're going that way. I sometimes use this metaphor to refer to Moodle um... the organisation as a ship and sometimes it's a spaceship, but more often, lately, it's been this sailing ship or a pirate ship. Um... The way it works is like this. So we have five main functions going on. We've got down here, Rowan, who you just met. He's a CFO. He keeps the company afloat. He keeps the lights on. Uh... He looks after all the admin, money, companies, audits, valuations, blablablabla all this stuff which is essential. Making sure we all get paid and his team is looking after the culture and the people and the hiring and all of that. Uh... Gree, who you'll meet later today, joined us about eight, nine months ago and is in charge of products. The products are like the masts. So we need our products to be strong. We need them to be aligned. And they're basically what's going to let us move forward as an organisation. Of course, you've got to hang some sales on that. So, uh... Juan Luca is new Chief Commercial Officer. Now, we don't do a lot of sales ourselves, but we have partners. Our Moodle partners are our sales organisations. So this team primarily looks after all of the partners around the world. And we now have Channel Partner Managers in different regions. And Fiona Ong is here with us. We've got a lot of the Moodle HQ here at this conference. Uh... Over there, we've got Kay, who's also here marketing. So that's all the flags, our insignias. I would include probably the guns. Occasionally, we have to go to war against something, but mostly it's our branding and insignia. And then, you know, at the wheel, it currently is me. That's the Moodle Party last year in Brisbane. Uh... So that's the pirate of the helm, yeah. So I sometimes refer to this group as the High Five. Um... That was the alternate image. Not quite as good as that one, I think. But, yeah. So, like, it's very serious business. It's very serious. Our mission is empowering educators to improve our world. It's very, very, uh... serious mission. Every word here is important. And educators are highlighted, because we focus on the people in local areas who make it happen. Right? We're not trying to teach people directly. This is what it looks like in Chinese. In Mandarin. No, it's Chinese. Um, so what we're trying to make is a platform, and there are six pieces to the platform. I'm not going to go into it too deeply, but they all work together. They're all parts of one platform. We have five values that we'd like to make upfront. We don't want to bury it in a page in our website. We want it to be something that the whole community can get on board with. Um, these are the values that make it, I think, easier to work with us. Um, because the Moodle Company is just the core of a much larger ecosystem of thousands and thousands of people. So, education is like number one. It's about education. Education's what's going to make the world a better place. Um, and we're always learning. Everyone's learning, and you need to realise that. So even when you get annoyed with someone, you've got to realise, well, they're always, they're just learning, and I'm learning, and we're learning together. Um, openness. We're open source, but we try and be open as much as we possibly can. We try and encourage other people to be open as well. Uh, respect. We endeavour to treat everybody with respect, and that means really recognising all cultures and even competitors and just everything, because it's all, it's all one little planet. Um, and, uh, we've got to try and, um, uh, uh, I guess always continually reawaken ourselves. So it's all about cultures, languages, genders, um, all of these things. There's so much push in society for those things right now, which makes so much sense, right? And that's, uh, one of our values, too. Um, integrity. So we try and be ethical, honest, and fair. Uh, that's always something to strive to do. Uh, I hate talking about things in the future in that I don't want it, I don't want it to not work out and then be vaporware, and then, oh, yeah, you said this is going to happen, um, so I really try and avoid too many stuff until I know it's going to happen, and I try and encourage that, uh, with all of us. And lastly, innovation. So our whole project is designed so other people can innovate. We are not trying to control innovation from the middle, we're trying to actually build things that other people can build on top of. So there's a lot of stuff going on. What's our focus? Uh, last year I talked about our eight goals, um, this year I'm going to talk about how, what we're using to decide to work on here, um, and, uh, to achieve those goals. So I want to focus on this word in the mission, the empowering bit. What does it mean to give an educator power? This is a very hard word to translate, actually. Um, a lot of languages can't translate that word very well. Because it has a lot of meanings in English. Right? You know, it could be like a dictator having power, uh, or, you know, an imbalanced relationship. Or, um, but in this case when we say empowering, we're talking about the ability to do more, um, to feel like they can do enough to do the job in front of them. So there are three main components the way I see it, right? When you're sitting in front of your laptop to do, to teach x number of people some subjects and get them all through it, you need tools. You need resources. So, you know, the tools can be computers and software and all of that stuff. Resources would be time, uh, support from your organization, other people around you, a team to help you, graphic designers perhaps, or instructional designers and things like that. Uh, and lastly, you need skills. Tools to be able to bring all that together to bear on the problem in front of you. You need to be able to deliver. And when you're on the cold face you need to be teaching and making sure those students are having a good experience no matter what the education scenario is. So these are the, um, nine things, main things that we're focusing on and they're all parts, they all work together. We're focusing on some resources and some of skills. And I want to go through them very briefly now. So the first one is the Moodle product, the main Moodle LMS. We're starting to call it Moodle LMS just to distinguish it from everything else that's Moodle, right, so the Moodle LMS. Um, it's important to recognize that that consists of Moodle Core, which is the product we release every six months, which is about built by the developers at Moodle headquarters and about 30% contributions that come in from the community. Um, by our very hardworking integration team who get that in. And then there's the Moodle plugins and there's like 1600 Moodle plugins in our plugins database. That's a lot of code. There's more code there than in Core. And not to mention all the many thousands of plugins that are not released publicly, that have just created locally for whatever purpose. Just because you've added a few plugins to it doesn't mean it's not Moodle LMS. It's still Moodle LMS. So that's why I'm including them in this diagram here. That means that a lot of what we have to, what we do is actually support those people. Developer support going on. Uh, we have one chat in Telegram actually with 800 something Moodle developers from around the world. Moodle.org Moodle Workplace. Has anyone not heard of Moodle Workplace before? Can I have some hands? A few people haven't. So we only announced it in February and it's a new initiative. Moodle Workplace is a version of Moodle that is focused and, uh, centered on the workplace training area. How many people here are in workplace training, would you say? Would you teach people at work skills? Okay, it's about nearly 40%. That's fantastic. How many people here are higher ed? Definitely university or further education. Um, okay. I confused it by saying further education, didn't I? It's about 30, 40%. How many people here from K-12 in schools? One, two, that went up fast. It was good to see. We have to work on getting more of you here. We need some help on that. Um, how many others? Any others? Yeah, what? What do you do? Oh, no, you're working at Catalyst. That doesn't count. Okay. Um, so yeah, there's a lot of people who are working on Moodle services around the place. So what Moodle Workplace is is there's Moodle Core. Moodle plug-ins still work. You can still, you put any Moodle plug-in on top. Um, a couple of, you have to be a bit careful sometimes in case of conflict with this set of plug-ins. This is the, uh, the workplace plug-ins. And quite a big investment's gone into that. Spent like, uh, I don't know, a couple of, at least a couple of million bucks on this. So this is, um, a set of plug-ins that bring a whole lot of extra features to it. I'll let Gary explain more. But I wanted to just explain that, um, workplace is made up of these pieces and that we, our plan is that some of these features will come into core over time, but not immediately. And you can see it has a bit of a different brand. It's really focused at that market. It turns out 60% of our revenue for Moodle comes from this sector. That's why it was worth making something for that sector. But we make Moodle apps. So the Moodle LMS has apps. There's two options. You can get the free app or you can get a branded app. And, um, we look after both. They have almost the same functionality. This little extra functionality, but the main thing is it's branded. Looks like your, your, uh, brand. And same for workplace. There's like a workplace app and there's a branded workplace app. We have Moodle partners. We got a lot of Moodle partners. There's like 90 Moodle partners around the world. Here's some of their logos. Um, all sorts of companies, big and small, that are working together with us and helping to support the Moodle project. The most of Moodle development is paid for by Moodle partners. The ones you need to worry about are these three lovely people. Um, catalysts, e-creators, all of them are here. All of them have quite a contingent here, so talk to them if you have any services needs or you want to just get some advice. Um, all of them have been partners for quite a long time now and are really good at their jobs. Uh, we also have integration partners. We have, uh, only a few right now, but the plan is to really expand this quite significantly. It's taking a long time to add them because we had a couple of misfires where we started to add some integration partners and then we found out that their code was crap. Let's put it that way. So it wasn't going to do anyone any favours to us to recommend, hey, use this if it's going to be bad performance or whatever. It's nobody's fault. It's just the integrations weren't good enough to be used in all the many places where Moodle needs to be used. So we brought in a lot more quality in the process down. But, uh, what I would like to say, if we're going to put the Moodle name behind an integration that we've checked it, we've reviewed it, it has a certain level of quality. Um, but you will be seeing some more coming out in the near future. Uh, Moodle Cloud. That's a lot of Moodles in the cloud. It's about 38,000 currently. Uh, it's a really active system and, uh, growing and we have, it's all mostly small Moodles. You won't be running a university on there. But, um, it fits a lot of cases and it's really interesting for us to have some direct experience of people using Moodle. We have the MoodleNet project, um, which is finally available in a sort of beta form. We're just testing it. Um, and what it is, is your Moodle site will be able to connect to the MoodleNet server, which connects to all the other MoodleNet servers around the world and it forms a kind of a network. It's a federated network. There is no central dependency. There is a central server for searching. You can search them all. So they're all going to be publishing information to a search server. But everything is streaming around to all the servers. And it's harder to build something that way. It's not based on Moodle. It's Erlang as a language and Elixir as a framework. It's all new technologies. It is open source. It uses activity pubs, standard protocols and it's really coming along quite well. It's a social network in the end. What the point of it is, is that you, sitting here in your Moodle site, about to teach something, are able to reach out into a world of content. To find really useful content that's been curated for you teaches like you. Teachers with the same needs. So if you're teaching a very obscure language combination, then you're going to find all the other people who are teaching that language combination in the place, in here. And you've together curated resources from around the internet. We have development partners. There's quite a lot of projects on the go. These are all organisations that we have things in various stages with or have done recently. I'm very, very interested in working with these guys and those guys and the World Bank down here. When I was in Africa last year a little lady came up to me about this tour and a really lovely Indian auntie and I said, who are you? She says, I run the e-learning division at the World Bank. She goes, we've been using Moodle for ten years and every project we do at the World Bank we use Moodle. I'm like, how? We're low in money for these big projects, development projects. We want to make sure they succeed. There's a lot of training to do. Everybody needs to learn. We implement a learning management system we use Moodle. We've done this before. A couple of months later I went and visited, spent a couple of hours talking with the whole team and so we're going to be working together a lot more. It really makes a lot of sense for development organisations because they have a lot of projects to work with open source because we have a lot of code and a lot of need for funding but that funding goes into something that has a wide social impact. If they need something added we put it in Moodle, you all benefit and so that helps their project succeed because it has a bigger social impact it helps us because we get funding and so they work well together and so that's why we're pursuing more and more of these projects. A couple of months a few months ago I joined the board of the Open Education Consortium and we're also we're working with them pretty closely on a number of things. They're mostly focused on OER I would say most of their members are about open education resources but it's not only about that and so I'm there really pushing the technology stuff let's get more focus on technology. IEEE are doing a lot of useful things and it's arena and education stuff. Every time I go and visit those guys I try and like wake them up a little bit because they're usually quite old professors and they're young PhD students who are doing the presentation at the end of their research and they've done some project which is great and it's about e-learning and maybe 30-40% of them used Moodle they publish the research done. What happens? Nothing happened out of it I'm like, come on, work with us work with the project again, get your stuff into the world and the Moodle Users Association is a development organization that we started but we're not running, they're independent and anybody here a Moodle User Association member? Got a couple? One, two, three not enough, join it. This association pays for decides on and pays for new core features. So if you've got something you really want to see done you can suggest it in the association if everybody likes it and votes on it it gets picked and done. So it's a shortcut on the roadmap. Lastly, that was all about resources different things we're doing for resources skills. So the Moodle Educator certification program ultimately you're going to get a certificate and it's going to look something like this and there are 22 competencies possible. If you were here yesterday you would have heard Solange talking a lot about it about one of the particularly one of them and I'll let Grae talk about this more later but this is our initiative to help improve the level of knowledge and the competencies to teach online, particularly with Moodle. And finally Moodle conferences. We have a lot of Moodle moots around the world. They were last year and they're all happening again this year too. And that's the French one where I'm hitting tonight. A few. For the first time we're holding a global Moodle moot this year. We've never done this before. This will be a regular event. It's always going to be in Barcelona. It's a little different. It's still a three day conference but everything will be translated in English and Spanish. It'll be bilingual. Which covers a quite large proportion of the world. Also our plan is to have every moot in the world find a bit of budget to choose somebody from the moot probably like the best paper or you know by some criteria they come up with to pay for them to go because I am so lucky I am meeting groups of people all around the world and all these different cultures and Moodle's done differently all around the world and I kind of want them all to meet each other. So if we can get one or two people from all the moots coming into this thing it's going to be great. So that's this replaced Moodle Spain it's just grown into this larger thing and it's a beautiful, beautiful city. I'm actually going to be moving there slowly. Still getting there. I'm kind of really easing into it. Lastly I want to get into some future stuff here. What does this mean? Improve our world. There are really bad things happening. This has got to be top of the agenda. You can't do anything else unless we fix this. Inequality in so many ways is getting worse and worse. In most parts of the world we are trending towards greater inequality. Pollution we are polluting the planet. I can't believe in Australia we said we're not going to use plastic bags anymore as this tiny little initiative really in the scheme of things but we couldn't even get that right. Now you just get a thicker plastic bag that breaks and it's just crazy. It's a start. I'm walking out of the supermarket with unfolds of stuff sometimes. But in Rwanda for example amazing thin cotton bags which they can give out for free because they're completely biodegradable and awesome. It's like why haven't we got those? I don't know. Someone's selling plastic somewhere. So this is the sustainable development goals I am going to harp on about them until they're all fixed. This is the UN has laid down 17 major goals this is the global agenda basically. And all of these these are the kinds of things that we need to be working on. And basically they're so important they're about the sustainability of the planet not even making it awesome just making it sustainable. They're so important that if we aren't in some way contributing towards these then you know get off the planet. Now Moodle clearly is connected to quality education as you are. But education is what drives all of it. It's literally the most important one. So I think we need to be thinking a lot more long term. And we need to be thinking what kind of people do we want in the next generations. We want people who think globally who are multi-culturally aware mentalists who are caring people right people with heart who are citizens who are interactive who get involved. Unfortunately our governments are just not really helping that much particularly Australia. But no in a lot of countries because just the design of democracy in most countries is just not really it's not working out a lot of people getting critical of the whole bloody design of it. Because there's these election cycles and you know money is being a huge role the corporate world is getting more and more of an influence and lobbying for certain things and they're not thinking long term towards that. They're thinking short term next elections. It's the system I don't blame the people but it's the systems. The big companies that are dominating the planet these days so you've done the business you got leftovers that's the profit. Why? Who does that go to? Goes to just a few people who own the business. That's not great that means there's a lot of exploitation going on at some level. It doesn't make sense to charge for digital copies of things. Physics says it doesn't make sense. Once you've made something to duplicate it like you're making some electrons you're moving some electrons around that doesn't cost anything. So to charge for it is to try and replicate some older model where you sold things and to try and bring that into the digital world doesn't make sense. That's why open source makes sense. NGOs are doing some great work. They are doing it in pieces. I literally sat last year in online educa in a room with 12 or so NGOs and they'd all built courses teaching the SDGs and they'd all built the same ones again and again like separately and they were all using Moodle too which made it even funnier and we're all in the room and I'm like come on guys why aren't we doing this together more we've just wasted a lot of public money here. So standards are a good thing once you have standards we're going to have community day if the president says we're going to have a community day once a month on a Saturday morning become standard peer pressure right if roads make you drive on the left or the right if we can force people to have the right behaviors by taking away plastic bags was a good try then you can drive a lot of behavior through standards it's not the full answer all of these things have got to come together for the common good and I think the best thing we can do as a species is get those SDGs into the curriculum at every level and soft skills as well critical thinking interpersonal relationships how do we get that into every curriculum when I say every curriculum I mean every curriculum so if you're teaching engineering there's not much room for me to talk about inequality but yes there is because you're going to have examples in your teaching the examples can show some example of inequality in which you apply engineering to fix that problem for example if you're teaching mathematics you can say what's 10 minus 4? 6 or you can say hey you have 10 apples and you give 4 apples to a homeless person on the street now how many apples do you have so it's all just approach and if we build that into content if we build that thinking we can start changing minds and creating different sorts of people when you fly around the world there's no borders when you look out of a plane it's just to continue them open infrastructure lets ideas spread really rapidly I mean Moodle got into 60% of higher ed not because it went through any governments or any policy making or anything just made it open like a virus so open education open technology they're the answers in my view that's the things we should be working on open technology means the sorts of things we used to do in Moodle localize it you can choose who you want to look after look after it yourself or get someone else to do it it's sustainable it shouldn't disappear if a company dies or a person disappears and it shouldn't set standards some sort of de facto standards that allow everybody to innovate on top turns out a lot of the world is like that a lot of the internet is like that all those big Silicon Valley companies are completely based on open source software Google is running on Linux Apple is running on Unix so my challenge is to everybody is how can we build open ed education infrastructure for the next 100 years let's go big let's stop thinking two years one year three year projects for some reason let's think big what's the big plan I don't have all the answers here but I think we do need to have a bigger plan I don't think just leaving it up to the capitalist system to work it out is working out we're getting down some very dangerous roads some people are controlling a lot some people have agendas that aren't for the many let's go music this one so we're having a conference we are starting a conference called Open EdTech it's going to be in Barcelona in November it happens to be the two days after the global Moodle Mood but it's not just for Moodlers this is for everybody interested in open education technology and building that plan it has a theme song that I made myself thank you very much it has a website openedtech.global oops that didn't work let's go there so if you look on the website that's great isn't it here we go you can find out a bit more about it there is a podcast there I've started a podcast I'm coming into like 10 years ago but I'm having a bit of fun with it I'm recording things on my travels I'm doing all these trips so every trip I'm interviewing people as I go really because I meet so many interesting people so now I'm just interviewing them and I'm capturing bits of audio from here and there and I'm collaging it together into this podcast so if you search for Open EdTech on any iTunes or Spotify or anywhere you'll find the podcast so tune in there's only 4 episodes so far there's more coming but we just opened registrations and things are starting to come together so check that out the point, what's happening here is these people are coming let's open that up again so we want open source developers we want open source CEOs people who are running projects and companies people who build infrastructure when I'm in Uruguay they use 100% as Moodle it's become national infrastructure so that should be a government data center run thing education researchers if you are doing some research in this area and you are wanting to make it real come and talk to all these people and we're pulling them all together there's going to be a lot of networking a lot of strategy the end result of the 2 days will be a Barcelona Open EdTech well I started with declaration but that was taken, there already was one Accord sounded good Blueprint was near out, maybe Treasure Map we're going to have some statements of the plan that we've worked out in 2 days and I want everyone to sign it where we are and if I can do a small part to help inspire people to think outside of your own current context think bigger I'm just basically saying to everybody think bigger how can you contribute to bigger things globally how can we as a group brought together by one piece of software how can we contribute to the bigger things out there that's my challenge for you for the next couple of days and I really love to hear from you I was going to have some time here for a lot of yarn a lot of questions we might have room for one Georgie is shaking her head okay we have another session this afternoon save it for then we'll have a big question time then but it's been a real pleasure to be back thanks for coming and enjoy the conference next 2 days