General plugins

At the San Francisco Moodle Moot, I took the opportunity to ask Martin Langhoff (One Laptop per child school server architect) if he could guess when the whole world would have a broadband connection.

His answers was both now and never. If you have enough money, you can get satellite internet anywhere in the world. However, that is so expensive, it is not a practical solution for the mass marked. And there is no known technology that would enable every household in the world be connected to the internet. (Think Australian outback, without even going to the third world.)

The Ethiopian government is spending 23% of its budget on education and is expanding (well, more than doubling) the number of universities in the country. Most of the new universities have about 3,000 students but only a dial-up Internet connection. The university has been waiting more than nine months for a faster connection.
At Debre Birhan there is an entry-level server and at least one computer classroom with networked computers. If we can get content on the server, the Intranet provides a valuable resource for sharing content and conducting e-learning.
I want to share resources from a Moodle server hosted in Europe, using some sort of incremental synchronisation process. If I have correctly understood the offline Moodle project, it is going to be very useful in this situation.

Hello,
The article is timely and throws more light on the features and future of Moodle.  Moodle is now have a fit for Internet and Moodle is positioned for Countries with high broad band connection.  I am one of those Moodlers constantly cautioning Moodle apostles to look for solutions to countries with low/no broad band connection.
I have already loaded moodle in USB drive and SD memory (for Mobile) to help the learners access contnet otherwise difficult due to bandwidth problem.
A time has come that Moodle developers need an introspection to find out a technology fit for Moodle to reach the unreached.  Though Moodle is reported to be available in hundreds of countries and many languages the major users are from North America and western Europe.  What about those countries including China to have Moodle in different Avatars.  Moodle is very good in Linux and not so good in Windows.  Moodle is available in many languages but English is the major one.  Moodle is internet driven and yet to find a way to port itself to other appliances.

Nagarajan

That module would be very usefull for me. I must one of the rare moodle users in a country where we still don't have permanent electricity.  Therefore you can guess that our internet connection trought a satellite dish is not so much reliable.