Martin Dougiamas

Thanks Nick, but we already have an LMS.  Any of your help, feedback or momentum towards this effort would be appreciated.

I really don't understand "...Moodle being steered off in a direction that we might not want to see it go".  Anybody can suggest and contribute GPL code but it's always up to me to include it in core (after it gets heavily reviewed by our team), otherwise it goes into Moodle plugins.  Moodlerooms and Netspot have been some of the biggest contributors among Moodle Partners recently, with IMS LTI, IMS CC and the refactored Assignment module for 2.3.  Has that worried you?

This is completely false and an utter troll.  It doesn't even make sense.  Grow some balls and step out from behind your pseudonym so I can sue you for defamation.  I could use the money.

I'll post more fully later once the dust settles (very busy here too!), but I wanted to add a few facts here to add to the mix:

• I was not involved in their deal at all (I found out only days ago myself) and have not been paid anything to support their deal.
• I think it's prudent to wait and see how it works out.  There are a lot of strong Moodle supporters involved inside Moodlerooms and Netspot, and they all have the best of intentions towards the software and the community.  I see my job right now as helping them (like any Moodle Partner) to make good on those promises.
• Moodle itself has not, and will not, be purchased by anyone.  I am committed to keeping it independent with exactly the same model it has now.
• We still have a lot of other Moodle Partners!

Finally, I'm finding it really useful to read everyone's analysis and opinions to help shape my own actions - thank you so much everyone for your support.

These are two different things.  Constructionism talks about about how the act of constructing things helps you learn, and constructivism describes how knowledge itself is constructed in an individual or social group.

In my view, "social constructionism" sums up both of these and more and is the term to use when talking about Moodle (or at least my intentions for it).

Others would summarise it with "Web 2.0" but that term wasn't around when I was developing my approach as a reaction against Web 1.0.