Dalziel, Colin J wrote:
> It seems to me that the most successful open source projects have been
> ones where a large section of the developer community are also the user
> community. For example Apache and Linux. I’m not convinced that in the
> world of education such a link exists. Educational software is often not
> designed for teachers but for learning technologists.
FWIW, I think there is some evidence that Moodle does have this overlap
between developer and user communities, and there are a good number of
(at least HE) teachers contributing large portions of the core code.
Other, humbler users can actively participate in development through bug
reporting and documentation, as well as mutual support.
--
Miles Berry
Deputy Head
St Ives School Haslemere
www.stiveshaslemere.com
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