Wikisoba project/Initial proposal

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Wikisoba is a working title for a project to create a "lite" version of Moodle.

Objective

A course management system that is free software and better adapted to small and medium-sized institutions involved in education and training. To be more specific, where Moodle is not suitable for applications when £40 a week seems like serious money, the idea is to develop a course management system that can mediate between a syllabus and accreditation by a badge system, via enrolment in lessons of mixed text, media and quizzes, and that can be hosted successfully in 1 GB. Time scale 18 months, of which 12 months would be adaptation of existing GPL code.

Goals

A fork of Moodle that reverses its tendency to feature creep, and integrates features available in MediaWiki.

Resources

At least one year of developer time/£100K. Would require strategic alliances to cover a high proportion of the cost.

Constraints

Avoid trademark infringement.

Outcomes

Reduced hosting and maintenance costs for the VLE.

Risks

Inadequate management of software development. Lack of a way forward to develop the software further.