Frances Bell

Moodle may be open source but Moodle.org members are not all non-commercial. There are many businesses selling courses delivered through Moodle, and Moodle Partners and others make money through hosting, consultancy and training services.

Tony,
I haven't read the book either, but as an academic I know that there is nothing quite so vicious as an academic culture
What I am curious about is what we can and can't talk about in Moodle. The Lounge sprang from quite a disagreement on this very subject.

Yes, I think it went beyond individuals saying things they or others may regret (we all do that!) but that there was a sort of group behaviour, a pack effect , that it something to be resisted IMHO.

Thanks Tony and A.T. we can (nearly) always rely on Moodlers to answer our questions (and I didn't think you were poisonous Tony)
We should all be grateful to Urs Hunkler for that Chameleon theme.
Tony you said
"Instead, he got involved with the community, learned how the code worked, and made lots of valuable contributions".

That got me thinking. Obviously the coders in Moodle are the key contributors but one of the things that excites me about Moodle.org is the contribution of non-coders who can help by supplying requirements, and giving user support. I wonder if the contribution of requirements is easier for functional rather than non-functional requirements. Maybe NFR are a little more emotive. what do others think about this?

It's clear that there there is Open Source and there is open source. The 'licensing' of Fronter merits discussion.
But it's nice - isn't it?