 We've been in a very interesting phase in the last year of reshaping the Moodle project somewhat and It's all based on this we nailed the the mission our mission as empowering educators to improve our world It's funny with missions as you boil them down. They start sounding pat but they This one every every word in there has meaning and I want to go through that our vision and what we want to do immediately is to build the world's most effective platform for learning and That's not just an LMS. It's a whole platform for learning and there's a lot of pieces in that So why why is that the mission? Well, we're doing pretty well with some things in this world Poverty is down to only 10% of the world's in poverty only four of us Out of a hundred dying before the age of five Up only 14 percent Have no education at all. We're not talking about any quality here. Just you know basic literacy and About half the world has some say over how they're governed which I think most people agree would be a good idea Whether or not the way democracy works is a good idea I'm sure we can have terrific arguments at the party on Wednesday night What we're aligning ourselves under as a project The UN is the closest thing we have to a science fiction world government where we all spend credits On buying things which I always wished we had reading science fiction growing up But the UN spent a lot of effort coming up with 17 goals for sustainability. This is not What we need to make the world a super fun place. This is what we need to make the world liveable and They're a pretty good set of goals we fit in there and number four quality education There are lots of other problems. There's inequality Massive in quality and it's growing in most places though strangely not in Japan So we need to go to Japan more and see what they're doing climate change It's something it's easy to forget But is Happening on a scale that we can't normally comprehend as an individual human being but there are trends and this is super serious That is causing food and water security as well as a whole lot of dodgy politics and there are a lot of places if you look at the The like for example the Syrian situation and the refugees a lot of that's caused by Droughts causing food problems causing people moving causing people who don't live together very well having to be in the same space Causing refugees etc etc 65 million people drifting around the world right now All of us are putting our lives into these things look what happened last couple of weeks with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica It's just you know what a lot of us have been pointing out for years This stuff is happening in a many many other ways quietly, and it's not on the front pages a lot of a lot of People are seeking to control the internet in different ways and and use this data in ways. I don't think we all want and We're rapidly automating jobs where some people are automating teaching some people are automating factories and things it's okay in some instances I disagree about the teaching but Is are we making plans for those people who lose their jobs to make sure they still have a place in the economy and can still Have things like health care quality This could very much be in a lot of countries including the US Health care quality is something that's a Is definitely patchy Environmental damage is all around us. We are destroying this planet and slowly slowly but surely throwing our stuff away. There's really good trends happening lately, but we're not there yet and All of those things need these kinds of people to solve them It's not going to be solved overnight, and it's not going to be solved by Waving a wand or a quick change in policy or a government Or making new apps necessarily it's going to be solved by generations of people who think like this people who are globally oriented who are aware of different cultures and Care about them people who are environmentalists who Think about the environment Every time you go to a supermarket and you have a wide range of goods there and you look at the labels And they're coming from all around the world, and they're all wrapped in plastics and All that stuff You're not really aware of the impact a single meal can have Going back into all the supply chain And we need to be caring people people who actually give a crap and we need to be citizens We need to be people who if you see a problem. You think okay, I can do something about that. I'll get involved I'll start a group. I'll be You know, I'll I'll become I'll get myself elected. I'll start a company. I'll do something but like be involved somehow and If we need a generation of that kind of people and I believe we do to fix all the problems then we've got to focus on this and I'm talking to the choir here, but Education is really what's going to fix things for me I think everything comes down to that and that's probably why a lot of you are in this business Called a business because you're all very busy. I hope so That's why we have our mission the purpose of us making software and tools and stuff is to help educators have more power To educate to improve our world. So hopefully educate people in the right directions And these are our values Education we value education in every instance. This is an education week openness We try and be open as far as possible with everything we believe in respect Respecting other products everything around us as much as we can it being in having integrity so living the way we talk and innovation breeding innovation allowing innovation letting people around us innovate and That's what's guiding moodle HQ now We came up with these and refined them down from previous stuff like last year But we're at a really inflection point as a project because to do these things the moodle project needed a lot more resources and I spent a Couple of years frankly talking with money people to try and see what we could do and Exploring that issue and I must have talked to 50 or so like investors potential investors and Pretty soon they would get into well, you know, are we gonna get 20 10.53 percent in two and a half years on? You know and it starts becoming that discussion. It's like well. No, you're not really getting it right Sorry rejected a lot, but If if we need to if we want to support these people Around the world we had to do it. So I kept going I kept going I kept looking kept trying to solve this problem and Here's some interesting statistics and Dora is the biggest moodle using country in the world with this responsibility to improve I Kept on looking and we finally did find somebody. I was actually in Israel Nadav is here from Israel anyone else here from Israel by any chance. Oh, hello, so I was at a conference there. It was called. What was it called? shaping the future shaping the future it was like 2,000 people that in the audience and I had a I know 20 30 minute chance to speak to them and I didn't even really talk about moodle I had a full-on a full-on rant about public education and The funny thing was all the audience was teacher with educators and all of the other talks were generally Start-ups who were talking about their new app or you know teachers can't do the job We need to replace them with technology and you can imagine everyone's going Not a not a friendly room to them and I came on and sort of said hey It's about us and teachers and educators We're the only ones who can do this and there was a lot of other stuff and in the audience was with these guys and So you probably heard or if you haven't about last September moodle had its very first-ever outside investment Now they got a very small percentage of the of the the main company of moodle, but What we really gained was Obviously in some immediate money that helps us do things straight away But we gained a big brother like a friend who's helping this project now these people really believe in What we're doing they really want to support it They're gonna be here for the next 20 years or so they weren't interested in exits They're not interested in you know little percentages of things they really believe in the mission and They're backing us And this is a tremendous thing for an open-source project when I described the kind of conditions this happened to people they go that never happens very often and We we are in this very good situation. So education for the many is the is Part of the the family group that owns Decathlon the sports Stores and you might go well sports stores. It's not a big relation to education, but actually their mission You know ours is about empowering educators to improve our world. This is about Making everybody as healthy as possible. They're doing the same thing in the health area their whole their whole mission is to produce Tools for people to make themselves fit and healthy At the lowest possible prices and they have they have weird things in there that weird for most companies Weird things in their strategy like we we shall not ever have more than x percent profits very small percentage of profit so as soon as they are able to spend less they drop their prices and And that's to kind of spread the when they do research on things they spread it as much as they can They also have a really interesting culture in their company look at that company is 90,000 people and so when they're sitting and talking with me every month about things I have all this experience and a really interesting advice on how to run larger organizations So that's really helping us So I am so excited right now. I'm having such a good Time we are really shifting how we're doing things and the last Months or so Has been okay now. We've got this chance What do we do with it and I know in the past? I've stood in front of Moodle moots and had keynotes and talked about things we want to work on and Let's be honest a percentage of them get happen if you look back We have achieved quite a lot in the last 10 15 years But a percentage of them don't happen and they don't happen because we just never had enough resources to really push them Or they're happening very very slowly It's time to actually make these things happen so last February we had a Team leads meeting of all the teams in Moodle HQ to Can't they came to Perth or just outside of Perth? We got everyone away from their families for four or five days We did a lot of brainstorming and we got a lot of work done so here's all the the team leads at Moodle HQ and So we got Rowan's there on the left the CFO got Sander Bergma who's an open-source lead I've got Doug Belchor who's sitting right here. You already met Gavin. That's Pierre So Pierre works for this family and the French family Got Holly people and culture person and Petra Head of comms Steve Watt who's a friend of ours is speaking on Wednesday As an ad is advising helping there We've got myself and we've got Chris Reed who's the Moodle cloud guy and Tom Murdoch who started Moodle rooms a long time ago And if you've been on the Moodle forums anytime in the last 15 years, you'll know Tom Murdoch runs the education team and we came up with eight goals and the eight goals are The framework under which we're organizing our projects and what we do and we're we're getting to the point where we can have a strong Framework that if things are happening and they don't fit we can say we're not doing that We're folk. We're not focusing on that right now. We just want to focus on these goals and It's not just us as a company. We're setting things up so the whole community I hope can gather around under these goals and then join with us So number one Improving the quality of teaching practice That's me in a school in India a few months back a really cool little school out in them out in the sticks far away from the city a lot of people living in Houses made of sticks and mud And a couple they have built an amazing school and that's all open source powered They use Moodle as their learning management system. They just internally locally They do credible things actually. It's really really very cool There was some stats from a few years back about quality or about people and their skills was that 74% of faculty in this survey They say an LMS is useful and 60% said it was critical 57% of them said they'd be more effective if they were better skilled at their LMS and 51% said they were dissatisfied with initial and ongoing LMS training efforts That's quite a large percentage of people who feel that they want to use this tool But they're not very good at it and that they're not getting the training they need They're not they're not learning how to use it very well So this leads to our first big project which we've been talking about now for about a year It's coming close to being a more much more public and it was anybody here involved in some of the early prototypes That we happened in January February. We had some initial runs. No one What we're building is a complete curriculum to learn to teach online Obviously Moodle is the tool we use but it's pretty generic. It's about how to actually Really use Moodle in a quality way We're building it to be worldwide and multilingual You can it'll be in multiple modes. So you could take some of these things online or you could take them in workshops There's a certification infrastructure behind it. So you can work towards certifications which can go in your in your profile and We're looking for accreditation in various parts of the world. So these can be used as credit towards the university-level courses It's aligned under a number of frameworks one of them is this one the European framework for digital competence of educators Which is from the European Commission? There's 22 What would you call them Mary? What do you call? Yeah, competencies, which We've we've we've aligned this System under those it's also connected to some other frameworks like the UNESCO four pillars of learning and basically as many things as we can align them to because we want it to be something that's Very connected with those initiatives, but also it's seen as valuable You get to certifications that mean something and frankly a lot of people have put effort into these frameworks that That that cover things so you can see even just looking at those so hopefully you can read some of that Things like collaborative learning which there's going to be a workshop on Wednesday with Mary about things like reflective practice things like analyzing evidence Responsible use these are not just how to use Moodle tools click click click button checkbox These are the pedagogy have the thinking behind it how to teach online in 2018 So tomorrow afternoon four o'clock as a session intro to learn Moodle with Mary Kuch who's sitting here in the almost orange pants Good branding. Yeah, good job. And and then again on Wednesday There's a colleague. She's collaborative learning workshop, which is one of those modules So you can get a bit of an example and an experience of what that's like It's not released yet. It will be we are still building it and We're going to be working with the partners next To work with them to refine it and see how it dovetails with their training And then it should be a bit later in the year. It'll be more available for wider wider use How can we measure and this is a question open question to you all? Because I don't have the answer to this Would love the answer to this How can we measure Moodle's effect on the quality of teaching? We need to work this out. I think I know because I would I want to show to ourselves and to the world that Moodle is Affecting the quality of teaching. This is the number four goal on the UN goal if we aren't doing that We're not doing our job We need to not only do it. We need to show we're doing it and measure it So I would love everybody to just brainstorm this question this next three days Keep it in the back of your mind. And if any projects come up anything initiatives, you know about are happening Please let me know we're all working on this. We've got some ideas, but I think we can all work on this together Okay, I'm gonna move a bit faster now number two We want to improve our reach worldwide. I already showed that world map Moodle is in every country But just cause some sites have it or schools or universities have it doesn't mean it's really there As much as it could be So there's a couple of initiatives. We're doing this year. We're launching a Moodle foundation And I was been planning this for some years actually, but we're gonna have it this year It's a non-profit a separate organization. It's going to be based here in Europe probably in Brussels where you can have lunches with lots of Movers and shakers and It's focused on research driving open source and how Moodle can be involved in that So we're looking for funding opportunities and developing them being involved in those larger grants and projects that are going on between universities and and research and companies Looking to be integrated with our other open initiatives so open education resource projects all sorts of open projects and stimulating research we want to have that the foundation even Having some scholarships. I'd love to see a Moodle scholarship for PhD students for or something So these are the kinds of things we've got some good people who are going to be in this Who already in this space? So we're not starting from scratch But we need it to be something that that so Moodle's got a voice in these things in the last ten years there has been millions and millions of Pounds put into e-learning related projects that use Moodle and You can guess how much has come back to the Moodle source code the Moodle core project almost nothing I can Almost nothing at all. These things usually go to for staff at Yadda University. That's fine But if if we if those projects develop source code develop software or tools or anything and At the end of the three years when the funding runs out just gets thrown away. What a waste what we're wasting this money We have to be more coordinated. We have to try and channel this stuff into the tool that we're all using So that's why we're doing that Also, we're looking at more NGO partnerships and being more proactive there that's me in the Security Council building just planning a war and At the UN Later this week. We're at the UNESCO mobile learning week in Paris. There's three of us there Presenting and You'll hear about save the children later this week world vision other NGOs This is what we part of our direction is being involved with these organizations who are doing great things often with Moodle already But actually working with them on those things Number three we want our company to be a great place to work like any place to work It's involves people somewhat and people we're ornery we're ornery aren't we So there's always improvements to make and internally we are Growing quite rapidly so we really want to get this right We want new people who join us to be joining a great place to work and making it an even greater place to work So we're doing a lot of introspective thinking about how we do things internally how we're structured how does an organization work in 2018 with all the technology that we have around us We're building up our office in Barcelona The Barcelona office is already eight people people It will grow further. We'll have an actual office there. You can go and visit Or painted orange very soon and That's going to be growing Rapidly so that will eventually by next year. I hope or the you have to be the same size as the Perth office We also have people scattered around the world in other places But Europe is really where The action is in my mind. This is where Moodle needs to be we need to be more involved here I will be moving myself to Barcelona in a year or two as soon as my kids are a bit older I'm actually Last six months or so I've been in Europe more than I've been in Perth already. I'm just traveling so much So we are Really doing that we want our culture inside the organization to be really based on the values for that to be part of the DNA one thing we're doing is to Measure how great a place of work. It is by submitting ourselves to this process the great place to work process which is a lot of surveying of people and a lot of alignment of things and We'll be working on to make that get better and better every year and we have some targets that we want to hit So if you want to talk about that goal Grab anyone from Moodle HQ anytime because we're all here this about how many of us are here actually is Georgie around how many of Where's Georgie? Yeah, she's busy So Georgie's our new event coordinator who joined like one or two weeks ago And I said come to England girls come to Glasgow. Sorry very sorry Come to Glasgow and and you know see what a moot is because you're going to be running a lot of them So she's around. I think that this may be eight nine of us Tim something like that a lot of us Moodle HQ people. So just grab us any time number four we are We really want to maximize connections in our community That's the strength of any project. It's really that's what makes being alive way more fun and Moodle has always had a Strong community a lot of people would say Moodle has a big and strong community Largely because in the beginning Good 15 or 16 years ago. I made Moodle our platform for the community And I very deliberately put all the developers and the users in the same forums And people were often suggesting oh can the developers have separate places We don't have to deal with users and the users are like we want more support. I said no You're going to be in one place and I think it's been One of the factors that led to a stronger community that we had these Conversations Moodle is very much in the middle between the technical and the pedagogical And that's where all the interesting stuff happens We also have the Moodle users association as an organization that is very specifically Gathering the community to fund and decide on new roadmap developments Not all of them, but as many as they can and That's been going quite well for the past a couple of years anybody here a Moodle users You a Moodle users association member? Well, you are you are you are okay? It's that's growing and developing as well And the other thing we have is a lot of Moodle moods we have 20 or 30 major conferences around the world at different places different times They Varying sizes Moodle HQ we run some of them some of them are run by community members and This is a very cool thing about this project that we have these and we we really want to grow them and improve them But the those that's what we've had up till now a lot of the community going forward is Going to be under Moodle net and And this is a chance to rethink what we are doing online with our community and Eventually, I wanted to replace the Moodle org forums because I don't think Moodle is such a good place in 2018 such a good tool for this kind of interaction Moodle's very focused on being an education space for institutions for higher ed for workplace for schools To make it a place that now has two million accounts on it To make it that tool that really works like things should work now It's it's not it's too much work to change Moodle to be that and we shouldn't waste time on that We've got a time. We've got a chance to build something from scratch here. It should be something that's Integrated with all the Moodle sites so when you have a Moodle site you see Moodle net and you can jump into it and It should support creating and sharing of content and services And it should really be on this thing first so Some of the things that you'd see in there is you would see Profiles you would see public conversations. You see a lot of resources going on Open resources and maybe others you'd see a lot of initiatives for the community to think through things and more and more and Another thing that's not on here that would really should be seeing is that it becomes a place for this conference You would have been in Moodle net seen There's a conference coming up and hit a button and register and get into it so that the online community is very closely tied to the Face-to-face community This is the guy running that project. He already mentioned that before Doug Belchor. He's leading that It's still early stages a lot of conceptualization That's the place to go to find out more about it Moodle.com slash Moodle net So number five of eight goals Moodle has to be feature competitive It has to be We can't have the situation where it's not So let me talk about last couple of releases briefly and then the future so Moodle 3.4 There was some nice usability work that happened the calendar got a facelift You can drag and drop things and it sounds light sounds easy But that's connected to all the activities in the background any plug-in in Moodle can can control things in the in the calendar It supports repeating events and things like that that are expected. There's some improvement on the Interface and all the dragging and dropping You can grab an item and drag it up to that month for example and then the display flips and then you can pop it into the next month things like that There was some work on the participants listing which was a huge bugbear for years It's a lot better now still improving but The Moodle analytics engine project inspire Finally hit core in 3.4 and what that is it's just a basic Level of functionality that we want people to build on and so we are not going to tell everybody What analytics should be we've just built a framework so people can build plugins to decide what analytics should be and it's any time you want an AI to look at all the data in Moodle and give some Responses some insights. That's what this is for and there is a whole Area on Moodle.org for devoted to that The mobile app in 3.4 also looking way better has a lot of improvements is really growing The leader that project is Juan who's here at the front from Barcelona In Moodle 3.4 we hit 100% support for core features, which was a great big milestone All of the core features in Moodle for students That you can do it on the mobile app Which means that if you're if you have a Moodle site that's only using the core modules The students never need to use anything else They can 100% stay in the app, which is frankly where they mostly want to stay these days We also had a lot of success last year with a branded Moodle mobile app and people choosing that So you can get a version of the app with your own name Your own branding a simplified login. It's in the store with your own university name and It's updated every two months. It's about 2700 pounds a year peanuts You can get that if you come to Moodle.com and We also released Moodle desktop, which is a version of the app for desktops Mac windows and Linux full screen if you want and Has all the same features as the mobile app ie. It works offline it has a simple interface and It works really well can also be branded as well Then late last year. We really started to change how the open source team works So we hired a new guy sander or sonda. No one can decide exactly how to say it. He's Dutch Sunder Bangma and He is the open source coordinator for the team. We never had anybody in that role before except for me And it's been a while since I had the time to put a lot of effort into that the team is quite big We've got you know, 30 or so people to to coordinate and then there's all the outside Stuff that we have to talk to all the whole community of developers the tracker the forums the MUA the Moodle partners Etc. So we got someone in this role and we also Changed some of the way it works internally we had big big teams who were Collectively working through the roadmap of little things they had to do all the little jobs or fixing this for bug in this forum fixing this bug in the workshop Etc. And the thinking we used to have was that this would mean everybody can do everything that if someone goes on leave or falls off a skateboard as one of our developers happened to him on New Year's Eve Damian Weiss he actually fell on his head and Had brain damage and it was very dicey for a couple of months, but he's okay. He's gonna be back soon He's gonna be 100% I think But we the thinking was we wanted our team to be robust to unexpected events like that the problem was nobody owned anything and A lot of things were not happening if you look at the activity plugins in Moodle they haven't really evolved super fast for a while and To change that We've changed how we're doing things. We're giving people responsibilities over particular plugins and We call them components in Moodle. It's not just plugins. It's also bits of Moodle that need looking after and So Sonda's doing really well at looking after that and when I say all these when I say the open-source team it includes the the Moodle PHP application But also the mobile application and all the bits of things that glue all those together We got lots of tools and servers and things that make all that work and the integrators UX testers documenters etc So hopefully what you'll see is a more coordinated approach to things and a bit more speed Moodle 3.5 is the one we're working on right now To come out in May the headlines are number one privacy features for GDPR. I Wish I could have said we did it two releases ago and that you had a whole year to prepare for GDPR There's anybody here not is not familiar with GDPR. Are you in anyone not so in Europe these regulations are landing in April May That Everybody who has a site with user data in it needs to be compliant with these privacy regulations. These are good regulations They're actually forcing Companies to think about privacy to deal with privacy appropriately to tell users how their data is going to be used to All of those things They are very hard to implement Just because Moodle has tools for this it does not mean you are you are done everybody who has European students or European teachers or any European users in their site Needs to be compliant and the threat of not being compliant is Four percent of gross revenue or something like that like it's massive fines So they've really got some teeth behind this and even though it's super painful It is a good thing to be doing and everybody needs to take that plunge Like I said, I wish we'd done it earlier But it's very hard for developers to understand the urgency of this whole issue Because and I I was thinking about it and I think the reason is developers are used to seeing everybody's data You can trust me I can read your email if I want to it's okay Don't worry. Like we we've got that attitude. We are the the masters of these universes And so we we don't we can't see the problem. You know, what's the problem? And that's why we have Facebook and Twitter and Google and all that but We have to not trust ourselves and that's hard We have to get put ourselves in a situation of the giving the user The making them trust us We're all users of software too, but we run systems where we have users So that's number one we work We spent almost the whole six month of the cycle pretty much just doing that and we still keep we're still gonna be keeping going Question Bank tagging from the MUA as a big feature and bootstrap for final So anyone's doing themes. It's now bootstrap for final in move 3.5. There's some improvements to the dashboard interface frankly finishing the work that was done in 3.3 and actually making it really good and Here's some examples of the GDPR stuff So, oh, sorry, that's like you can make your own policy documents in Moodle This is the bottom the bottom of a web page and you can see It shows policies that you might have to be aware of just like when you see, you know This site uses cookies that kind of thing but other stuff Then you have to agree to policies and when you do they're they're stored The users can contact the data protection officer for that institution and ask for their data back Or things like that and the in this in Moodle There's tools for keeping track of those sort of requests and so on Moodle mobile 3.5. There is a new ionic 3 framework which allows nicer interfaces There's a new mechanism coming for non-core plugins and this is a big one because it's okay for us to have core support But a lot of people use the beautiful open-source nature of Moodle to make their own plugins naturally And all of those have to work on mobile too. So this is the a big thing Some of the interfaces look going to look pretty nice. These are This is roughly what the new interfaces look like in the Moodle mobile app So you can see it's starting to look very modern, very satisfactory, I think And going forward this we've decided to really get some focus on what we focus on by Focusing on what RFPs are asking for these are when a university goes out to tender They we need a new platform and they put out a request for proposals Stipulates all the checklist of things that they want to see Moodle cannot fail on any of those checklist items So even though some of them are a little boring We are Committing ourselves the next couple releases to analyzing all of the RFPs from the coming out lately make sure Moodle checks all the boxes Yeah There's a bunch of stuff in those about usability about standards of support about integrations about support across all devices about Moodle being more active i.e. analytics But Moodle being a bit more active in the learning so that gives you the idea of the flavor of them, but This analysis is what's going to drive the roadmap for the next couple of years So we'll be publishing some of that soon. You'll see the roadmap documents coming out There is a bunch of things about development this week Really all of the big presentation sessions have some development ones or ones related to plugins people have built in case studies so And all right number six And I should be finishing soon We really want to improve the breadth and depth of Moodle services So that means stronger support for our partners our Moodle partners who are a really key part of the Moodle environment Integration partners is a couple here that you'll see outside We're going to be improving Moodle cloud and we're going to be developing our ability to manage very large commercial projects So these are the Moodle partners in the area the UK and Ireland These people are critical to the Moodle project and they always have been all the developers and development gets funded by them mostly They are they spend their whole lives breathing Moodle and thinking about Moodle in different contexts so we work with them and we're going to be working even closer with them in the future on Helping people access services through them Moodle cloud is our hosting setup. We have about 25 over 25,000 Moodle sites currently on that system They've been doing a lot of work on making that system GDPR compliant As of today, this is an announcement. We've removed the ads off the free sites I never liked them anyway. Never wanted them So we got Google off out of there, which is a good thing Does anybody got a free Moodle site? Yeah, some Moodle cloud All right, when you go there no ads In the near future, we're working on some more sector specific packages and more integrations with other SAS systems on there To to flesh it out Now number seven This is a dirty word in an open-source project cell but It's shouldn't be Because a lot of people don't even know what's going on in our project We spend some time doing some Brand marketing, you know, we've got social media and things like that It's mostly talking to the people who are following us. So they're mostly people who know us already We come to Moodle moods. So you come to Moodle moods. You already know what Moodle is We don't really go out there. We don't go out to other places telling people what Moodle is. So we're not out in the field We're not really marketing our products like we could be or there's different products. We can make out of Moodle We're not really showing people how to use Moodle In a good way. So we're gonna be a lot more active. You'll see us out there a lot more at conferences like learning technologies or bets edu cores in the US edu tech in Asia Pacific etc. You'll see start seeing more Moodle signs orange boots with orange logos so that people don't walk into these places and go I see that company in that company. Where's Moodle? Oh, they must have dropped off the planet So we're just gonna be more out there. I'm also going to a lot more conferences that are nothing to do with Moodle Like I triple e-conferences where there's 70% of them are researchers who use Moodle Or like that conference in Israel for example, you know Just getting out of the Moodle bubble verse and out there into the rest of the world. So we're doing a lot of that also Integrations with products online. This is how Silicon Valley works. I went to a conference last year 10,000 software company CEOs in one room every single icon logo on this thing they're all there and I could see they're all leveraging off each other All of them they're all got integrations to you know You're in this thing and you can go to that thing or you can share over to that thing You can get another one of those things They're all connected and we're not really in that universe And I don't really want to be a Silicon Valley company if that wasn't clear but if you're on sales force and you're using sales force for your CRM or something and you think hey I need some sort of education for my growing company and you go into their marketplace There should be a Moodle logo in there and then you find Moodle Etc those kinds of things are things we need to be doing so we're building up the teams to do these kinds of things internally All of this is about achieving sustainability at a higher level. This project is not going to be relying on outside money as a present it's got to be We have to get this whole project to a place where we can have to 100 200 300 Developers building the world's best education software and that the whole ecosystem is funding it It's important for things in this world to be sustainable Unlike a lot of like research projects. I would say Although people would look at that as you know where you move on to the next research project and the next research project and the next one We don't have that luxury. We are we want to be sustainable and solid all the way through So that's our eight goals Anything that doesn't fit in those things is we're not doing and we're trying to stay very focused in here So we're busy Goodness, how can I help I hear you ask? Look get a branded Moodle mobile app. It's a total non-brainer It really is very simple a very very simple thing to do Except if you have some third-party plugins that you've written yourself It may not be an easy decision in which case Juan will tell you all about how that will soon not be a problem Join the mood who uses association There's a presentation this afternoon. I believe at 535 or 530 who's running that actually it's one here Not sure. Anyway, we'll all be together Anybody's welcome to come to that stuff by the way. It's a meeting of the association, but it's also anybody's welcome If you're using Moodle for research, well use Moodle or promote Moodle It's really the best way to do research into online learning because of the amount of data You can you can gather from yourself and around the world There is a website research.moodle.net where we're collecting papers and information And that'll lead you to other things If you're involved in grant funding of for Moodle related projects, just give us a call drop us a line We may not be have the resources to really fully engage just yet, but like at least give us a shot. Let us know about it Maybe we can help you get some of that stuff into core Use Moodle cloud you it's there for you. We made it for you If you need consulting, please use Moodle partners Moodle partners pay 10% of their revenues to us And that's that's what drives a lot of our sustainability If any of that hit home if any of that's interesting just talk to me talk to anyone else here Reach out, you know, that's why we're all here in the same place. We've all traveled here. Let's make the most of it And maybe if you're thinking of ditching your crummy job Give us a call look on our site. We actually got a lot of hiring going on And I would much prefer to have people we know who've been around in Moodle for a long time And who believe in the mission Lastly, I just want to say in general Supporting open practices is one way to support the UN sustainability goals I believe and all sorts of open things that Open practices are things that are bigger than a government bigger than a company things that are open Things that work and we often forget how many open things are out there that actually making it all work Right email email is the best social media platform ever invented HTTP the web Nobody controls that look what happened when that got out out of the box Unix as an operating system, you know led to Linux led to Mac OS X led to even to Some versions of Windows Android is Linux by all this stuff. It's all Linux and unix in there That's open software. That's how it works. It just gets out there, right and it makes stuff happen And lastly, I just want to say this is what I think what we're all aiming for So let's all kind of try and make sure that's what we're doing because it's the next generation that's that's really going to Leads the generation after that and the generation after that and we hope there's many of those right so thank you very much and I hope We all have a terrific three days. I'm really looking forward to being with you talk to me talk to anyone. Enjoy your time And thank you very very much