The .LRN Consortium is pleased to announce a $5,000 award from the Yahoo! Employee Foundation (via the Silicon Valley Community Foundation) for continuation of the Zen Accessibility Project.

The focus of the work will be on adding dynamic yet accessible UI elements into .LRN and making .LRN more accessible using WCAG recommendations. As part of this work, the Forums package will be used as a model for continued work on accessibility in .LRN.

The Yahoo! Employee Foundation (YEF) is a unique grassroots employee driven philanthropic organization. All the money is donated by employees, and all activities are run by a volunteer committee of Yahoo! employees.

We would like to thank Yahoo! employee Stephen Boettcher for championing this grant.

The conference was great!. There were a lot of participants, interesting papers, a very nice trip; it was a lot of fun. Check out the newsletter for more details.

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As a work for the .LRN Consortium we have prepared a newsletter about what happened in the community during July - August '09.

Enjoy!

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Este es el segundo boletín del GES (Galileo Educational System) en la Universidad Galileo.
Presenta una serie de artículos relacionados al e-Learning, la utilización del sistema LMS .LRN en dicha Universidad, y de las nuevas características que el grupo de desarrollo de Galileo ha incluido en la plataforma .LRN que tienen instalada.

Se puede obtener aquí: http://ges.galileo.edu/fs/download/Bolet%C3%ADn%202?file_id=1027429

The 8th OpenACS and .LRN Conference will take place in Cartago city, Costa Rica hosted by organized by the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica from November 3rd to 6th 2009. The call for papers is now open.

Here are the important dates:

• Submission of Abstracts proposals for Presentations and Posters (max 150 words) - September 15th
• Notification of accepted abstracts - September 30th
• Versions of papers (6 pages Springer style) - October 5th
• OpenACS /.LRN Conference - November 3rd - 6th
• Elearning and Open Source day Conference (registration is necessary) - November 3rd

For more information visit: http://www.tec-digital.itcr.ac.cr/conferencia-dotlrn-2009/
Check out the conference poster: Spanish

.LRN is based on OpenACS and there is a new tutorial for OpenACS, this is a great way of knowing the base software of .LRN to start developing on this framework, it is aimed at absolute beginners, it covers some simple installation process, the creation of an application and some introduction to the use of ACS Objects, this tutorial is aimed to be covered in 4 days to get the basic programming skills and useful tips in this framework, going step by step for a new adopter. The tutorial goes from the "hello world" in OpenACS to advanced stuff such as creating a new package, using web forms, acs_objects and building reports.

This tutorial has a lot of work that has been going on for a while and here is the first version ready for public viewing.

OpenACS Tutorial

For more information check out: the announcement in the forums.

As a work for the .LRN Consortium we have prepared a newsletter about what happened in the community during March - June '09.

Enjoy it!

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The 8th OpenACS and .LRN Conference will take place in Cartago city, Costa Rica hosted by ITCR from November 3rd to 6th 2009. The conference is focused on the development of community based web sites (primarily built with the OpenACS framework) and on community based e-learning environments (primarily built with the dotLRN framework).

The program will contain tutorials and birds of feathers (BOFs), three days of presentations and workshops and an optional tour to the beautiful Arenal volcano located at San Carlos, Costa Rica.

Besides to assist to the conference you are encouraged to send a participation in: Presentations,Thematic Workshops, Poster Session, Tutorials or Mini-demo sessions.

For more information visit: http://www.tec-digital.itcr.ac.cr/conferencia-dotlrn-2009/