In this talk, Yannick Warnier, president of the Chamilo association makes a compilation of the pastevents of Chamilo and shows us what the future of the project is. This talk belongs to the end of the year event organized in 2012 by the chamilo association.

1. The Chamilo project
Past, Present, Future
Yannick Warnier

2. Program
● History of Chamilo
● Philosophy of Chamilo
● Future projects...

3. Timeline (1)
2001: Claroline
● Université Catholique de Louvain
● Innovating project (Open LMS)
● GNU/GPLv3

4. Timeline (2)
2004: Fork Claroline - Dokeos
● New non-universitary breath
● More reactivity

5. Timeline (3)
2009: Diverging
● “Pro” version of Dokeos
– Philosophical and commercial failure
– Restrictions on the free version
● Growing community in Latin America (far away...)
● Moral Breaking Point

6. Timeline (4)
2010: Chamilo
● Building of the Chamilo project and association
● Promoting effort: starting from scratch
● Tour Peru + Chile + Brasil + Spain + Belgium
● 250,000 users

7. Timeline (5)
2012: Global popularity
● 2.2M users
● 2 free software awards
● Active and enthusiastic community
● A stable, simple and... attractive platform
● International certification

8. Chamilo philosophy
Community
2.2M users
3000 portals
Jobs
+200 people e-learning
Around the world
Association
Partners 5 directors
4 companies / 4 universities Role: Coordination
Free software
Adaptable / No license costs

9. December 2012
~12 countries DON'T use the campus (over more than 185)

10. LMS platforms
+200 others...

11. Features

12. Makes creation of content easier

13. Makes creation of content easier...

14. Manages academical structure
Courses
Careers
Cycles/Sessions
Promotions

15. Interconnectivity
● CMS
– Drupal
– Joomla
– PrestaShop (e-com)
– Open ERP

16. Interconnectivity (2)
Carrières
Cours Compétences
Chamilo
OpenERP Drupal
KnowledgeTree

17. Does it support high loads?
● Free campus
– 180,000 students
– 13,000 courses
● Campus (typical) example (campusvirtual.usil.edu.pe)
– 11,000 students
– 3,200 simultaneous
– 400GB documents, tasks, etc per year
● ICPNA
– 580,000 students, 5.5M “attendances” (1 campus)

18. General philosophy
● Learning is not easy (but it should)
● The system to do it must be easy and accessible
● The community has its say, by majority
● The system must be easy for teachers, but also for
students, admins and developers
● Growth by integration and collaboration more than
development and competition

19. Future projects: Association
● Collaborative funding: http://fund.chamilo.org
● Official courses and certifications:
https://shop.beeznest.com
● LMS/LCMS clarification
● More official providers (covering more territory)
● More members
● More local groups (including a French group)

20. Future projects: Chamilo LMS
● New localizations (Tagalog, Aymara, etc)
● Superior stability (continuous integration system)
● Desktop sharing and recording (for tutorials)
● More connectors to 3rd parties (Google Docs, Dropbox, etc)
● More standards support (IMS/LTI, IMS/QTI, HTML5,
microformats, etc)
● More flexibility for exercises, social network and documents
● [Your feature here]
● Responsive design
● Wall “à la Facebook”

21. Future projects: Chamilo LMS (2)
● Symfony framework components re-use (will boost stability
and speed of developments)
● Improvements for groups and classes (merge?)
● Better exercises tracking (more precise, more reports)
● Collaborative mind-mapping?
● Off-schedule lectures recovery
● Video recording (webcam)
● Sub-languages collaborative translations
● Human resources features for job interviews
● Multi-portals synchronization for low-connectivity

22. Contact
Yannick Warnier
President
Chamilo Association
e-mail: info@chamilo.org
@ywarnier
@chamilofrance
This presentation is published under the Creative Commons license by Yannick Warnier
Some images might use other licenses

23. Références
● Chamilo usage
– Http://version.chamilo.org/community.php
● General information (LMSes): Wikipedia
● Illustrations
– Google Analytics
– Chamilo