Adapt Learning Community: Hi

I'm Julian Tenney, I work at the University of Nottingham and have been the lead developer on the Xerte project for the last 9 years. Our goals have been very similar to yours in the development of Xerte Online Toolkits, which is now used all over the world and has loads of users / community of developers. I'm not sure how similar it is to the ideas you have for Adapt. The last year or so we've been moving away from Flash and towards HTML5, and this has gone down extremely well with our users, which are mostly educational institutions: I think you may be more interested in the commercial sector?

Anyway, we share the same problem, so I thought I'd say Hi,

Julian

Hi Julian

Thought I would see wot's occurrin'.. hope you are well?

Cheers

Phil

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Hi Julian,

thank you for making contact and welcome!

Very interesting that you are moving towards HTML5. I'd be very interested in finding out more about the Xerte project and will try to reach you separately.

All the best,
Sven

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Hi Julian,

just to say thanks for your time on the call today. It was great to catch up and I look forward to meeting you in person and sharing more of what we are doing and learning from each other. As mentioned, I would be very keen if the two projects were able to work alongside each other and support each other where possible.

Seeing as it's relevant, I wanted to share this blog entry with the community. It talks about the importance of considering joining existing open source projects rather than starting from scratch every time. We agree with this sentiment and have done so in the case of Totara, our last open source venture. I wanted to acknowledge that we also considered this and Xerte is the project closest to our aims and the one we considered building on / joining in the early days.

The blog article is slightly incorrect in so much that it thinks of Adapt Learning as an LMS project. I have left a comment on the site to explain how we fit into the landscape.

Many thanks,
Sven

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Good talking to you too, and it will be good to meet up and talk again in a bit more detail. Thanks for the acknowledgement - though I completely understand why developers want to solve their own problems, particularly interesting ones! Let's talk more about how we can work in partnership when we meet up, let me know some dates,

cheers,

Julian

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