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    3. About LeMill
    4. Development
    5. Design
    6. Communication
    7. People
    8. Guidelines for developers
    9. Evaluation
    10. Dissemination
    11. About this site

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LeMill is a web community for finding, authoring and sharing open and free learning resources. Its main target group are teachers and learning content authors, but anyone is free to join.

This site (http://lemill.org) is the home of the LeMill server platform. The open source software is developed in here. If you want to test or use LeMill, go to http://lemill.net. LeMill.net is a LeMill server hosted by us, the developers.

If you just need to get a general level information on what is LeMill, you may have of the overview at: http://lemill.net/content/overview-of-lemill.

LeMill is also known as "Learning Mill" or Learning Toolbox.

News

News from the LeMill blog and the Learning Environments research group's blog.

New servers, even faster LeMill (Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:51:25 +0000)

Our excellent hosting service Gocept migrated LeMill from their temporary hosting platform to their actual one. Our entire cluster in now running as several virtual servers inside a single physical high grade server structure. As performance has been an issue, I’ve been running performance tests using hammerhead. In the previous hosting setup the current version of [...]

Questionnaire for LeMill users (Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:35:16 +0000)

The European Commission has a Learning 2.0 case study in progress, and as part of that, they are interested in analyzing LeMill in detail. They have prepared a short online questionnaire for LeMill users. We hope that you have time to answer the questionnaire.

LeMill article in eLearning Papers (Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:27:10 +0000)

eLearning Papers online journal has published a special issue about open educational resources. One of the papers included in the issue is from our researcher and lead developer Tarmo Toikkanen: Simplicity and design as key success factors of the OER repository LeMill

LeMill 2.5 brings two new templates (Sun, 12 Oct 2008 23:14:34 +0000)
Resource connection problem fixed (Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:12:36 +0000)

LeMill ITK-päivillä (Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:00:57 +0000)

Tarkoituksemme on tuoda LeMill opettajien tietoisuuteen Suomen suurimmassa opetusteknologiatapahtumassa: ITK’08 - Opi valitsemaan, olet aikaasi edellä Toivottavasti pääset paikalle, tilaisuus on aina mielenkiintoinen ja meiltä on luvassa kolme ohjelmanumeroa. Tärkeimpänä workshop, tämä kutsu koskee sinua: ITK-08 workshop “LeMill opettajan työkaluna” Järjestämme ITK-päivillä kaikille perus-, keski- ja korkea-asteen opettajille sopivan työpajan, jossa opitaan löytämään, käyttämään ja luomaan avoimia oppisisältöjä [...]

LeMill 2.0 (Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:53:44 +0000)

Our final deliverable for CALIBRATE project is ready. The original promise was to develop an ‘open source learning toolbox for collaborative learning’ and this should be it. It looks like our latest version announcement was from version 1.9, so 2.0 doesn’t seem so big a step, but really, we have gone a long way from [...]

LeMill merged with Learning Toolbox (Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:28:38 +0000)

As some may already know, LeMill is developed in the CALIBRATE project and so far the teachers participating in the project have used a separate, closed copy of LeMill for their testing. A month ago it was decided to combined the closed Toolbox and the open LeMill communities. Instead of having two small communities, we [...]

Publications coming (Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:03:44 +0000)
LeMill 1.9 released (Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:09:42 +0000)

About LeMill

Development

This section is mainly targeted for the developers of LeMill.

Design

This section is a collection of design ideas, notes, lists and other material. It may be a bit unstructured. :-)

Communication

This section has information about what kind of communication tools and practices are used in the software development of LeMill.

  • Mailing lists for developers, maintainers and users
  • IRC -- IRC is used for daily communications
  • Meetings and workshops
    • Meetings -- Agendas and decisions of meetings
    • Workshop -- 1st workshop/sprint in Helsinki
    • Workshop 2 -- 2nd workshop/sprint in Tallinn/Budapest
  • Title index -- List of all pages in this wiki

People

Guidelines for developers

  • Infrastructure -- Information on servers, services and tools for development
    • PPTConversion -- How to setup PPT to images -conversion with Open Office
  • Book list -- List of useful stuff to read in libraries or on the net

Evaluation

Dissemination

About this site

This site is for the development of the LeMill server software of the CALIBRATE project (work package 3). Visitors to this site can browse all the content we have here (try out the buttons on the top of the page). More information on this Trac system is available in the Trac Guide.

You can't any longer submit bugs (here called "tickets") anonymously - since some spambots tried to harass the system. If you think you need an account here (you would like to contribute), please contact tarmo.toikkanen(at)uiah.fi for account creation.

Disclaimer: All content in this site is made by individual authors. Nobody takes any collective responsibility for the correctness of information here. But since this is a Wiki, you should have already figured that out. :-)