Martin Dougiamas

Ah no problems, that makes sense!   Grazie!

It would be a good function to add properly, for sure.  I can imagine a new block called "Parent communication" for doing this that could show on student user profiles for teachers to enter messages, and the parents/mentees would also see there as well as on My Moodle.  Extra points for integrating this into the mobile app so it can all be done via phone.

In the meantime you could just use ordinary Messaging (assumes the teacher knows who the parents are for each student).

Actually even inside the Moodle organisation we don't assign any rights to the organisation.  I've told all our programmers to copyright any files they make under their own personal names, just like any other contributor.

I really can't see any problems with your people doing exactly the same for any Moodle code, but obviously the lawyers are beyond rational behaviour.  So put someone else's name on the code, whatever, the beauty of GPL in Moodle is that it makes no difference who owns the copyright.   If you can't find anybody else to put their name on any code you want to share with us then I'm very happy for you to use my name for the copyright statement.

ie the statement looks like http://docs.moodle.org/dev/Coding_style#Files : you can add an @author line so the actual authors get some credit too:

@copyright 2014 Martin Dougiamas (or your dog, whoever you want)
@author Curtis Fornadley

Cheers,
Martin

P.S. Martin Langhoff mentioned the "Moodle Foundation" above.   This does not and has not ever existed.  The full legal name of the only Moodle organisation is "Moodle Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Moodle Trust" and that doesn't own anything.

Hi Chris,

Nice to see you here.  We've come up with a basic equation editor in Moodle 2.7 as part of our new Atto editor but I would love to see the Moodle maths community take part in creating a premier open-source JS-based solution that was at least as good as DragMath in functionality.

Cheers,
Martin