A few months ago Catalyst was asked by a potential client to go through the project requirements with them in a workshop. There were about 120 requirements with the majority being “must have”, a few “should have” and a couple “could have”. The requirements themselves were mostly of a high level nature and thus providing […]
For 2013, our chief Mahara designer Evonne created a series of Mahara merchandise with the Mahara logo in various incarnations. We have the plain Mahara logo, but also various Mahara characters representing community members / roles. I love these special logos because they show that Mahara is not just a software, but that people are […]
When it comes down to working with text documents collaboratively, I’m a happy user of the track changes and comment functionalities because they allow people working together on a document to easily communicate about the text and see each other’s changes. Over the last few days, a colleague and I have been working on a […]
This year, Catalyst organized the fifth annual Open Source Academy. It took place in our Wellington HQ from 5 to 16 January 2015. It was a full house again with 23 students. They came primarily from Wellington, but we also had a few from the Auckland and Canterbury regions. This year, girls outnumbered boys by […]
For several weeks now I have been using a functionality of my file browser that I had ignored religiously in the past. You see, Ubuntu, a Linux-based operating system, comes with Nautilus, which is the built-in file browser. For the most part, I file all my downloads or files that I create away in folders so […]