 Alright, good mood, good mood, great mood, excellent mood, I would say it's the best, the best mood or mood and I don't, you know, I know I often say that but they get better every time. It's been amazing, like having the chance to kind of practice last year for those of us who were here last year, we're in the same venue. It's really cool, like we just ironed out most of the bugs except maybe the coffee timing and some of the food stuff but anyway, it's been, I hope that you could see through those, see past those, it's been awesome and I've certainly had the best mood or mood. I, we've, 700 of us have come together here, it's actually the same size as last year's mood. I know we had 840 last year but that was because we had almost, well about another 140 Moodle HQ members here that we flew in and they couldn't, they didn't come this year because I'm pretty sure you don't want us spending all, all the money on that. You'd rather we were working on Moodle. So no, it's been, it's been great and I really appreciate everybody making the time and the budget to come. I really want to thank here, the people who sponsored to make something like this run, to hire a beautiful hotel and make it a high quality event. It does take money and it's kind of a, you know, no one likes to talk about money but you know, that's, that's what makes things go around. And look, thank you so much to these, the sponsors of the Moodle Mood who do provide funds to help pay for things but are also friends of the Moodle community in various ways and they're part of the Moodle community. We do not accept any sponsor, all sponsors. We had lots of people who wanted to be sponsors and we went, thank you but we don't really think you'll fit in. So, you know, we're kind of fussy that way. So, when you look at all these sponsors' names here and I'm not going to read out every single one, they're here, you know who they are. Hopefully you got to talk with them and interact and everybody I've spoken to has said that they have been flat out talking to each other. So yeah, it's been great. So 26 sponsors, probably the most sponsors we've ever had, would that be fair? And yeah, thank you so much for supporting Moodle and being part of the community. It's a big round of applause. As I said, 700 people but 56 countries, not bad. That's a third of all the countries in the world have made it here to this particular city and I'm just really impressed. I must say I was doubtful about that photo working out but actually I think in the end it looks pretty cool. We have a great photo of us there. Thank you for everyone getting in that. We'll put it online somewhere. We had 100 speakers from 24 countries. Thank you for everyone who's put together presentations and made the effort to capture your knowledge and share that with the rest. I hope you all manage to attend sessions and get in and listen to them. I personally, at these things without wanting to, I become the attraction who's standing somewhere in the hallway and I just can't move, just like one meter and I love it. So I had probably individual face-to-face conversations with at least half of you, I think, maybe more. And for those I didn't get to talk to, I'm sorry, but maybe a chance after this. Here's a few photographs from around the place, just random ones. Some of the things we've been doing and experiencing here. Rakhat from UNESCO was very impressed with everything and I love working with her team as well and I was at her at their conference in Indonesia a few months ago. I think there's going to be a lot more collaboration here and Moodle and UNESCO are very compatible. We're really going to become better and better friends. We have the same goals and also what she shared with us was the frameworks that UNESCO has been working on for decades and that's a lot of people have been involved in creating those and that's the best we have in the world for these thought structures about how education should operate in the future and I realised even though I've read a lot of those reports in the past, the way she put it together really made me think in my own work I'm going to try and align more of what I'm doing under that language and under those frameworks so we can work a bit more closely with all the organisations that are involved in UNESCO. Thanks to those who came to the Music Jam on Tuesday night. Personal highlight for me because I love music and I've been wanting to really have music jams at every Moodle Mood and it's just sort of hard to get them organised but this year we managed to hire a venue and get the instruments and so many people stepped up to be on stage and help perform and make some music and the quality was really high. Even people who weren't playing were saying, did you hire a house band? Was this like a professional gig? Because it ended up sounding fairly professional and I was just pretty impressed and all the musicians were all on a high and were all high-fiving each other around afterwards. We had a great time and as I said at the night if you didn't make it but that is a representation of the Moodle open source project in music because we all arrived with no plan we just had instruments and we just had to make some beautiful music together and we did so you know congrats. We're going to make this regular from now on and we had the party last night. I don't think in any other world would you see the golden girls together with Margaret Thatcher. I love your interpretation of the 80s. Very creative. So much creativity last night. You know, Aurelia is a Wonder Woman. There's your photo, Aurelia, you were looking for and oh gosh so many so many things people would highlight. There's Pablo and yeah everything so. Now I want to I want to share some news. I've obviously I'm the founder of Moodle and I've been doing this for the last 24 years right and well I as you can see from my keynote I don't know if you picked it up but I'm really getting into like AI and that's that's because I never really stopped like I've always been like really interested in how do we turn technology towards education. How do we empower educators to improve our world you know by building effective open source platforms and open technology. I've never stopped and you know to do that you need to always look at technology and work with technology and play with technology and that's what I love doing and you'll usually hear me talk about Moodle as the Moodle project because to me it's the project I started and it's that's what it is. I think it was someone from Justin from this dead tech said oh when you're keynote you like you really know your stuff you weren't reading off the slides or you didn't have prepared words like you're just you know speaking it because it's true. I am so deep in this topic that it's my life and unlike most other learning management systems or ed tech companies which are generally you know the company comes first somebody builds a company and a product because they're selling and it's very company profit focused. In Moodle's case I created a company to help manage the project so the Moodle headquarters Moodle HQ we usually call it its proper name is Moodle proprietary limited is a company that just has a business structure to make Moodle a sustainable project and that's what handles all the business stuff and Moodle partners and creates you know lots and lots of sources of revenue so that we can hire a big team of people at the center of the project to work on developing the code to manage relationships and you know run websites and do all the maintenance and and so on so that's that's what I've done. Now my background is computer science and education you know my my training data as an AI I guess was originally that and making a company well it was pretty easy when it was one or two people and we're now 260 people so along the way I've had to learn how to be the CEO of this company and I'm the CEO of the company. I'm also the we have a board most companies have a board and I'm the I'm a I'm a director of the board along with so Rowan our CFO is also a director on the board and Pierre Garand Garand from Education for the Many you remember may remember seven years ago we we took some investors the the people behind Decathlon and they've been terrific and they're also on the board so we're on the board. I'm also the chairman of the board you know just like Iggy Pop. So you know I'm kind of all through this stuff I have a lot of roles in Moodle and it's really my my my desire to get back to the coding and the research is just getting stronger and stronger though and I have been feeling that for a while so I've decided to as I mentioned create this new role at Moodle called the head of research have a research team so I can just spend all my time doing that and the reason is I really think we need to be thinking hard about the future of Moodle next year the year after five years 10 years 15 20 years 50 years why not and to do that needs a lot of work and attention I need to put all my attention into that the longer term strategies and AI because to you know as I said AI is going to be bigger than the internet was so it's important so all my attention is going to that which means as you would have guessed there is a CEO vacancy so I will telling you now that very soon I won't be the Moodle CEO anymore and we are looking for a new CEO to come and help with the management of the Moodle company and we've already been talking to some people and I must say I'm feeling super positive and encouraged with the people who are turning up and we're interviewing like very very smart people who get it and have really great skills and honestly I think they're going to do a better job of being a CEO than I ever could because it's like what they love to do so that was my news so what doesn't change is anything about Moodle the product and the community what doesn't change is that we're still going to have Moodle Moodle so I'm still going to be at those Moodle Moods here and there won't be any really difference to you but I just wanted to tell you first before you found out from somewhere else that that's happening so I'm not no longer will be the Moodle CEO probably by the end of the year or something like that we are obviously taking this very seriously even the CEO role who's who's there and so as you can imagine very long process of interviews and endless tests and discussions and and so on so we make a really good decision so that's that that was my news so thank you for maybe share that and I'm super excited like I'm super happy about this I feel like I'll be you know really freed up to you know be a proper nerd again all right um so Marie was going to talk about some of the competitions and give you some updates oh actually just before you do that any questions from anyone about that did I explain thoroughly enough a burning questions no good you can you know where to find me you can always if you've got anything ask me later all right cheers all right I get to do the fun stuff give out some free tickets well no I'm actually giving out just one free ticket it is the free ticket that is going to come along with the best outfit worn at the Moodle party last night just hands up who went to the party okay keep your hands up if you were in costume all right so all of these people unless you work for Moodle HQ or partner um have a chance to win a free ticket to next year's Moodle so we're going to start by having a look at our top three contenders drum roll drum roll on the tables all righty number one Yasukuchi do you want to come up yeah do you want to come up yeah no no say where you are you're good you're good who else has like five photos on their phones over those outfits yeah I had to take them I was like my husband's gonna love you anyway okay number two Guido this is actually a feat of engineering it's just too amazing uh and number three Hegel actually even danced like Freddie like he was so good okay so now the big winner are we ready are we ready all right I do want to explain it is just one free ticket and we have two people have to somehow battle it out congratulations guys okay now the second free ticket that I'm not going to give out today is for your favorite presentation at the event which basically you will get to vote for through the feedback survey which should actually already be in your mailboxes I'm pretty sure I saw that email in mine a few minutes ago so fill out the survey tell us who your your preferred presentation or your favorite one the one that got you thinking the one that just lit up your eyes um and that person will tally all the votes and that person will win also a free ticket to next year's moot and it will be announced in October on moodle.org that's right Jess yeah okay good so that's it that's all that's all we've got to give away wait no I kind of lie if you look underneath your chairs a few of a consolation prize underneath and if it's not under your chair check the empty chairs next to you because there's lots of empty chairs 10 in total total throughout the room so it's worth having a look around uh it is a t-shirt uh that you get to keep from you all okay thank you that was it for me back to Martin somebody kindly told Marie this week that she was now accepted into the community which I thought was lovely whoever said that um all right uh look we're at the end uh I just want to say a few a few thank yous on behalf of everyone to everyone so look thank you to the the moodle community team members first and foremost for organizing this event um it people always say this but the events take a lot more than you than you realize but there's obviously tons and tons of details that go unseen and unnoticed I'm sure by most people but it's a daily grind and also a very heavy pressure with a massive deadline so you know thank you for working through that and bringing us to such a beautiful conclusion and a lovely event come up here and just like show yourselves come up on stage come on Mary all of you look good to stay here do you want to say anything uh yeah I just want to say a big thank you to you all for coming along and um partying hard with us last night and um being here speaking at the event we couldn't um do this without everyone's help so um yeah we really appreciate it we have a great couple of days especially last night and yeah we look forward to seeing you guys again at a future event thanks Jess and thanks Sandra thanks the whole team okay stay stay stay stay here um moodle moodle sponsors we already showed uh look thank you again come up here as well we're gonna do this we're gonna do this come up here work your way up just spread yourselves out thanks to the Fabra Davies team that's Diego and his team who are on the ground preparation team taking care of a lot of the on the ground stuff here in Barcelona they live here uh where are you come up here as well yeah yeah come on come up here and the whole team a lot a lot of the reason why the parties are so cool is this man he's a behind the scenes guy every year you put me a more difficult come on yeah yeah i'm learning you're learning it's all about learning uh all the moodle moodle certified partners for supporting moodle in general and paying the salaries of moodle headquarters so please all the moodle partners come up here and our certified integrations as well certified integration partners who worked with moodle provide plugins and connections with moodle we've got way more now than we had last year please all of you come up here as well thank you for supporting and being part of it look that's everyone else uh i i think at this point it's going to be almost everyone so anyone who is that all the people who came who who ran the dev jam the ux jam the learning design jam the music jam uh look you don't have to come up i think you can stand up in a minute because it's going to be everybody um the people who did all the session chairs and timekeepers quick round of applause for them the uh the moodle moodle user association which has been running for a number of years but we have we're all working together to actually move the moodle users association into a new home in the middle of moodle.org where everyone can be more part of and it's just alignment of bringing all the users much more around the roadmap on moodle.org but thank you to the the moodle users association for all the terrific work you've done over the past years and helping to fund new features in every release of moodle and yeah on behalf of them the committee members if you're here come up as well MUA i think all us thank you all our speakers all our poster presenters as well thank you all hundred of you plus um yeah for really you know the conference is about conferring all right it's about speaking and uh yeah i really appreciate all the speakers i'm gonna go back and catch up on things from the recordings and everything afterwards i'm really looking forward to it so thank you all of you um the moodle marketing and comms team for helping communicate all everything that's happening and capturing what's happening and so much of that so round of applause for you all of the and look really everybody all of moodle hq all of you who've attended really that's everybody um last thing here just to call out um all of you who participate in the activities around uh moodle.org all of you who use your skills and knowledge to support our community out there i'm talking about plug-in developers plug-in testers translators there's particularly helpful moodlers on the forums MUA members qa testers on every release we have so many of you volunteered to test each feature uh moodle net contributors with your content some great upgrades coming soon in moodle net four um moodle academy presenters uh on moodle academy which has gone from strength to strength by the way there's so many great courses if you haven't looked lately on moodle dot academy um dev docs uh our user docs and all of that so like that's all us doing all that thank you everybody for all of that so thank you i think that's everybody here we are the moodle community thank you there's one more thank you i think we need to give at this time next year probably you won't be the CEO when we do the next and so i think this group of people would like to say thank you for what you've done come on it's all right stop it stop it no no no all right keep going keep going no no no no stop please no i'm not going anywhere i appreciate that jesus all right thank you thank you so much oh my gosh um yeah look go sit back down thank you um yeah so i appreciate that thank you thank you all um so look it's not finished right where's a lot to do uh and uh we're going to stay in touch uh please fill out the moots feedback survey be in your email uh and help us make it even better next time oh hang on a second speaking of next time uh so next time we're actually organized enough to actually know where we're going to be next year and what's happening so um we we are we've decided uh to move the global moot around a little bit uh it was in Barcelona quite a lot recently um last three years running or minus pandemic years which we were somewhere else um you know mentally uh and um we are going to move it around so the next year will be in a different continent and the reason of doing that is to give a bit more opportunity for people in that part of the world to come to the global moot because even though we are from so many countries there is a i would say a healthy percentage from Europe because it's close so let's move it around and uh so next year's moot is going to be Mexico so we're we're really hoping to see a lot more of our South American friends being able to attend and we hope all of you can come as well it's a we're looking at quite large venues so we'll have plenty of room and uh the year after that we haven't quite decided but you'll see how this goes and then we'll we'll see how that goes so thank you we'll see you in Mexico in the meantime stay connected in the matrix chat if you haven't got into the matrix chat yet qr code there uh this is the moodle moot ongoing chat the moodle moot doesn't have to stop we just keep on going and as the integration lands in 4.3 you're going to see moodle.org get integrated with these chats and we can all be a lot more connected all right stay connected keep the e-learning going always e-learning and uh i love you all i will see you online see you