Yesterday, 5 August 2014 New York time, the New York Mahara User Group (MUG) met at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. The day started out for me by saying goodbye to Pleasantville, which indeed is very pleasant, where I visited with Beth from Pace University. She is one of the organizers of MUG New York […]
Back in March, which seems to be already so long ago, we organized the first Mahara conference in New Zealand, Mahara Hui. On the first day of the hui (gathering, assembly in Te Reo Māori) we asked participants to write down their 5 wishes for Mahara. We gathered them in a jar, and at the […]
Over the last few months, a team at Catalyst has been organizing the first conference on Mahara in New Zealand. There are a number of Mahara events around the world (Australia, France, Germany, Japan, and the UK for example), but we’ve never had a conference on Mahara in New Zealand. Thus, it was high time. […]
Over the years, Mahara users in New Zealand and also Australia have been asking us why there was no Mahara conference like the folks in the UK have with Mahara UK. I tried to mumble in my non-existent beard, but could not come up with a good explanation esp. since I was also in favor […]
Kiwicon 7 came and went in a flash and consumed the entire last weekend. And like the previous three years that I’ve been at the con, it’s been a weekend to remember. The first year I went out of curiosity because lots of people in the office were talking about it, and I saw great […]