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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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/

There are some seats in the .LRN Board of Directors open for election.

Now it´s time for nominations. Every Consortium Member is welcome to nominate by email.

    * Board members typically serve in 3, 2 or 1 year terms.
    * Board members must be .LRN Voting Members from a .LRN Organization
    * Elections are held once per year for all vacant posts.
    * If a Board member resigns or is no longer a .LRN Voting member prior to the end of his term then that post is filled during the yearly vote.  All candidates are voted on together. The people with the highest number of votes are given the longest terms.


Who may vote?

One representative from each .LRN Consortium member organization.

Who may nominate?

Consortium members.

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

Enjoy it!

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The conference was great!. There were a lot of participants, interesting papers; it was a lot of fun. Check out the newsletter for more details. Available in english or spanish.

The 7th OpenACS and .LRN Conference is in Valencia, Spain hosted by Valencia University  from November 18th to 21st 2008. 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).

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://aulavirtual.uv.es/dotlrn/clubs/openacslrnconference/xowiki/

Hay 3 presentaciones acerca de .LRN y trabajos que se están realizando:

1.  "Aproximación a una arquitectura para aprendizaje desconectado" Ing. Mario F. Solarte. Universidad del Cauca. Colombia
2.  "Generación,  empaquetado,  y  publicación  de  objetos  de  aprendizaje  con .LRN" Ing. Mario F. Solarte. Universidad del Cauca. Colombia
3. "E‐learning  simple:  usabilidad,  ajax  y  rápida  creación  de  contenido  para diseño instruccional". Prof. Rocael Hernández. Universidad Galileo. Guatemala

Pueden ser visualizadas aquí.

O bien si esta en Madrid puede asistir al seminario.

The programa for the conference is available at the conference web page:
http://ges.galileo.edu/conf2008/feb2008
(still small changes might happen)

Please register if you haven't already, so you help us to finalize the organization details. Register at:
http://ges.galileo.edu/conf2008/page-instance-new?conference_id=1