Join the dots

Some of you might know that the 2010 Australian Moodlemoot will be happening in July this year in Melbourne, and I’m lucky enough to be on the organising committee for what will hopefully be the biggest and best Australian Moot yet. Its being sponsored by NetSpot, who I do work for, but my role in the whole thing has gradually and unintentionally morphed into being the ‘Community Advocate’, trying to make sure that in the planning phase for the conference the needs of the broader community are being met. What does this mean? I guess it means that I’ve been given a license to stand up in internal discussions and say ‘well that might be one way of looking at this question, but what I think the community would probably want to happen is…’

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