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We are pleased to announce the 2007 Annual Conference of Claroline Users which be held in Vigo (Spain) at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación.

The Conference will bring you the opportunity to gain a deeper technical or pedagogical understanding of Claroline, to learn from the experience of other Claroline users whatever their roles can be, and to start networking with people from a large variety of horizons who share Claroline as common ground.

Annual Conference of Claroline Users
University of Vigo (Spain)
May 23 - 25, 2007

The Claroline Team is proud to announce the second minor release of Claroline 1.8. This new version fixes the last bugs reported by the users and its bunch of new features :

• The homepage course list can now be hidden to anonymous users using a new parameter in configuration tool.
• The configuration tool is now fully translatable in your mother tongue (already translated in French).
• Support of html in the "fill in blanks" questions of the exercises tool.
• Add the wiki syntax for table in the wiki tool.

The users who try to install Claroline 1.8 on a mutualized hosting server (e.g. free.fr, ovh.com, ...) will be glad to know that the Claroline Team fixed the bug which prevented the installation.

You will find on the changelog page all the bugs solved in this version.

In addition to these features, the Claroline Community has worked to improve the translation in Thai, Turkish, Bulgarian and Czech. Thanks to all translators.

Go and Download it !

At Online Educa Berlin, Guillaume Lederer from the Claroline team was interviewed by two bloggers: Jean Michel Billaut and the E-mob blog.

Watch here the interviews (fr) :

• Claroline interview on E-mob
• The billautshow : interview with Jean Michel Billaut

From November 29th to December 1st, 2006, the Claroline team will present the platform at Online Educa Berlin 2006 (Germany), the 12th International Conference on Technology Supported Learning and Training.

Claroline services are now offered on the http://www.claroline.com website : hosting, training, support or specific developments can be assumed by an experimented team involved in the project.

These services are assumed by the CERDECAM Asbl (Research and development center of the ECAM, Belgium) in the context of the project FIRST SPINOFF CIMTESA of the Région wallonne in Belgium.

A basic free hosting is now also possible with the official Claroline campus where people are invited to create a course and use the Claroline platform.

• Visit the new service website : http://www.claroline.com
• Try out the new official campus : http://campus.claroline.com

From December 11th to 15th, 2006, the Claroline team will present the platform and its benefits for education to the teachers and all the people involved in higher schools, universities and training in French-speaking Belgium. We will go to Namur, Brussels and Mons.

• See here the invitation and the registration details (fr).
• Contact us for more information.

Claroline will be presented at the Epsilon trade show on November the 23rd, 2006 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.

Epsilon is a place of meeting and exchanges for everyone involved in the training sector.

Guillaume Lederer, Florence Ortmans and Anaïs Hulet will be presenting Claroline in a stand and in a 45 minutes conference. See you over there!

• Contact us to get a free pass for Epsilon 2006.
• Visit the Epsilon 2006 : http://www.salon-epsilon.be

The edition 2006 of the professional trade show dedicated to the uses and applications of ICT for education, will take place from the 15th to the 17th of November 2006, in Paris-Expo, France.

Anaïs Hulet and Mathieu Laurent from the Claroline team (CERDECAM asbl) will be presenting Claroline in a stand of the Open source software village (with OpenOffice, Gepi, Sesamaths, ...). Do not hesitate to visit us!

Visit the Educ@TICE web site : http://www.educatice.com

Only two weeks after the Claroline 1.8 release and thanks to the huge Claroline community feedback, we can now provide you a maintenance release increasing Claroline reliability.

All major bugs reported to us have been fixed and are all in the past now (document download, exercises export and import, ... )

We highly recommand any campus currently using Claroline 1.8 to upgrade to this minor release.

• Download Claroline 1.8.1
• See Changelog page for more details about changes

The Forum PHP 2006 will be held the 9 and 10 november in Paris.

Big companies of Internet World will be present, in particular Yahoo! - with the creator of PHP, Rasmus Lerdorf - and Google.

This forum is addressed to all people which develop Web applications. The first day is centered on the functional field, second is directed technical.

Many fields will be approached: good practices in PHP, security of PHP applications, Ajax, future of PHP, ...

Forum PHP organized by the French Association of the Users of PHP (AFUP) is a unique opportunity to meet the PHP community, the professionals of PHP and Claroline developers.

More information on Forum PHP site