RL033 Jari Järvelä's guest appearances

RL033 Jari Järvelä

Radio Liferay

Michael Young

Juan Gonzalez

Brian Chan

Dennis Ju

Jorge Ferrer

Kristoffer Onias

Victor Ware

James Falkner

RL054 Scott Nicklous

Neil Griffin

Raymond Augé

Jens Bruhn

Thomas Schweiger

Bryan Ho

Stian Sigvartsen

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Janne Hietala

	About a month ago I had the opportunity to talk to Jari Järvelä and	Janne Hietala from Arcusys. They both head Valamis, an E-Learning	solution on Liferay that later (end-of-August) won the Liferay App	Contest. Unfortunately, a lot of work as well as my summer vacation kept	me from releasing this podcast earlier (well, for me it was not quite	unfortunate that I had a vacation) 	Here are our topics:  		the history of name changes, starting with "JSCORM" 		The meaning and origin of the name 		The release schedule (they met the schedule that we discussed during the recording, released end-of-August) 		Features that have been added throughout the history of the project. 		The version released in August now has a Curriculum Portlet that combines different courses into a Learning Path.  SCORM, the prevalent standard for exchanging E-Learning information. This standard is typically used as distribution format for commercial courses and Valamis supports SCORM 1.2. 		We talked about Liferay Certification being available "soon" - that was true at the time when we recorded the podcast, it's actually available now 		License, Availability and Price (hint: LGPL, and there's professional support available) 		There's a steady team working full-time on Valamis. 		Design aspects: The Arcusys Team really cares about design aspects, both in the software, as well as in their presentations. 		Geography for beginners, we talk about finish climate, ice-fishing, and "where is Finland" 		If you want to try Valamis without installing it yourself, just try it on their homepage: A demo environment is available 		Picking up my favourite code demo, sevencogs, from my last-year's symposium presentation "Well Hidden Features" 		The experience of publishing on Marketplace, PACL and PACL differences between application servers 		Future Features and Release Plans (e.g. Tin Can API) 		How to evolve from a Learning Management System to a Learning Portal 		The principle of Aiming High 		There's no shortage of standards to implement 		The team is working with a school in Afghanistan to provide what might be the first e-learning system in an afghan school, also connecting them to finnish schools and students. 		Upcoming Symposiums, Portal Solutions Forum, DevCon 		Since we recorded, Valamis won the Liferay Marketplace App Contest

About a month ago I had the opportunity to talk to Jari Järvelä and 	Janne Hietala from Arcusys. They both head Valamis, an E-Learning 	solution on Liferay that later (end-of-August) won the Liferay App 	Contest. Unfortunately, a lot of work as well as my summer vacation kept 	me from releasing this podcast earlier (well, for me it was not quite 	unfortunate that I had a vacation) 	Here are our topics: <ul> <li> 		the history of name changes, starting with "<a href="https://github.com/arcusys/JSCORM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">JSCORM</a>"</li> <li> 		The meaning and origin of the name</li> <li> 		The release schedule (they met the schedule that we discussed during the recording, released end-of-August)</li> <li> 		Features that have been added throughout the history of the project.</li> <li> 		The version released in August now has a Curriculum Portlet that combines different courses into a Learning Path.</li> <li> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharable_Content_Object_Reference_Model" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SCORM</a>, the prevalent standard for exchanging E-Learning information. This standard is typically used as distribution format for commercial courses and Valamis supports SCORM 1.2.</li> <li> 		We talked about Liferay Certification being available "soon" - that was true at the time when we recorded the podcast, it's actually available now</li> <li> 		License, Availability and Price (hint: LGPL, and there's professional support available)</li> <li> 		There's a steady team working full-time on Valamis.</li> <li> 		Design aspects: The Arcusys Team really cares about design aspects, both in the software, as well as in their presentations.</li> <li> 		Geography for beginners, we talk about finish climate, ice-fishing, and "where is Finland"</li> <li> 		If you want to try Valamis without installing it yourself, just try it on their homepage: A demo environment is available</li> <li> 		Picking up my favourite code demo, sevencogs, from my last-year's symposium presentation "Well Hidden Features"</li> <li> 		The experience of publishing on <a href="https://www.liferay.com/de/marketplace/-/mp/application/17200859" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marketplace</a>, PACL and PACL differences between application servers</li> <li> 		Future Features and Release Plans (e.g. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Can_API" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tin Can API</a>)</li> <li> 		How to evolve from a Learning Management System to a Learning Portal</li> <li> 		The principle of Aiming High</li> <li> 		There's no shortage of <a href="http://xkcd.com/927/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">standards</a> to implement</li> <li> 		The team is working with a school in Afghanistan to provide what might be the first e-learning system in an afghan school, also connecting them to finnish schools and students.</li> <li> 		Upcoming <a href="https://www.liferay.com/events/liferay-conferences" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Symposiums, Portal Solutions Forum, DevCon</a></li> <li> 		Since we recorded, Valamis won the <a href="http://discover.liferay.com/marketplace-app-contest" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Liferay Marketplace App Contest</a></li></ul>

RL033 Jari Järvelä, Janne Hietala on Valamis