[brlug-general] LSU and Moodle

[Shannon Roddy]

On 11/4/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote:
> Good news.
>
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> Brian Voss, LSU chief information officer. "It alleviates the need for
> students having to learn multiple systems," Voss said. "It (Moodle) is an
> open-source piece of code, which means we aren't having to pay a vendor for a
> license to use it." ... Despite being free, Voss contends Moodle is as good,
> if not better, than Blackboard.
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>
> $350,000/ year of Free Beer.  An understanding of Freedom can't be far away.


While most people's understanding is a bit different than yours, I can
only hope that the universities that are using it "for free" will kick
back some developer time or some support to the project.

-Shannon