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17:11 -0500

It’s probably about time that I blogged about this…

Starting last week Tuesday (October 28), I started working at
Open Knowledge Technologies (a.k.a. OKTech). They
mainly do custom development on Moodle, which is an
online learning/education platform.

Moodle is free/open source software, which is great because I actually get paid
to work on free software. If that doesn’t make sense to you, well, it actually
works quite well in this case. Moodle is free, which means that anyone can
take it an run it and/or modify it. However, in the educational setting,
there’s a lot of variety in needs, without (usually) the technical skills to
customize, and so there’s a lot of demand for custom development. The free
nature of Moodle means that an educational organization can hire anyone to do
the customization work, which is good for them. It’s also good for companies
like OKTech, because it lowers the barrier to entry. Instead of needing to
write your own online learning platform, you have all the hard, boring stuff
(or at least a good chunk of it) done for you already, and you can focus on
the customization that’s needed.