Frances Bell

Although Tony Wilmore said we could just imagine the jukebox, it seems to me that we are stacking up disks for it already. How about we have the M³ (Moodle MultiMedia Juke box) where participants contribute music, images, video clips to a collaborative glossary with a random entry block on the lounge front page? We could then just reach over from the sofa and play the track of the day.
A spot of cyberstalking has revealed that Tony Wilmore has other goodies stashed on his web page

Great!! and saves on so much programming
Tony, let us have your marketing plans for the imagine-pod.
Any ideas on the avatars for the Moodle lounge sofas?

Thanks Nagarajan,
I don't have a light sabre but I will do my best to ensure that the are no elephants in this Moodle room. Regarding the norms of discussion in this space, this was logged as an issue see MDLSITE-50.
Martin commented on this issue "I totally agree this is going to be necessary, but I hope that those in the new Social course on moodle.org (http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=55) will be able to sort this out in there.

Perhaps they can come up with something that we can add to the home page or http://moodle.org/mod/resource/view.php?id=1361) as a general set of guidelines."
So we have a responsibility to come up with some suggestions and I intend that we will do this through thorough debate, asking difficult questions and answering them, whilst treating each other with respect. I have made a note of one of Bryan's injunctions above "In general, you may not use the forums at Moodle.org as a place to advertise your business offerings. Forums are non-commercial in nature and the course moderator at Moodle.org has the discretion to remind users this practice is not welcome." I am sure that will be one of the issues we'll discuss.
However, I think that we need to first decide on the privacy / openness issue for Moodle Lounge as this impacts on our norms and policies, in this thread.

Apparently, there was a problem because someone deleted a post, and the thread was split to preserve it. I know that Tim T was having the same problem seeing Bryan's post.

Bryan,
Your post is couched in very strong terms. Are you happy for 'Moodlers' to ask questions about partners and their relationships with Moodle.org?
My use of Moodle is pretty small-scale but I do and have used Moodle partners for hosting services (thanks to Andrea Bicciolo and Sean Keogh, both of whom are visible on Moodle.org and have given excellent service IMHO) so I don't rely on the donate button (but am grateful to those who click it).
In the case of the partners I have used (and for all I know you too) the link between them and Moodle.org is evident. You mention that Martin is a partner, well he is very evident in Moodle.org . I am not sure that is the case for all Moodle partners. I have visited the sites of several Moodle partners and looked for 'names' that I can link back to Moodle.org but this has not always been possible. You say that "This designation is for someone that has shown a willingness to consistently (at least 90 days) help Moodle users with their problems." What happens next? IS there an expectation that this willingness continues?
Please don't interpret this post as an attack on Moodle. I am totally committed to Moodle and that is why I have agreed to facilitate in this space as a volunteer. Moodle partners are clearly key to the success of Moodle and to the achievements of the goals of the Moodle venture. I hope that they are prepared to engage with the rest of the Moodle community and offer some transparency about their relationship with that community.
BTW, who are the Drama Queens?