eXe release 0.11
09-December-2005
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Keeping up to our commitment of releasing every month, version 0.11 of eXe has just been uploaded. The eXe project is developing an off-line authoring environment to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. The project is funded by a grant from the Tertiary Education Commission of New Zealand and is led by the Centre for Flexible and Distance Learning at the University of Auckland. You can download the latest version from the eXe project web site
We've been a little thin on the ground this month with two of our developers attending the Open Source for Education in Europe conference in Heerlen. Nonetheless we've still made reasonable progress :
- a new Flash Video idevice that makes it easy for authors to include video snippets in their eXe packages;
- the ability to include a hide/show feedback button in the iDevice editor;
- our first Mac OS build for eXe - it's still experimental, so expect a few teething problems;
- new localisations for Dutch and Icelandic; and
- an Ubuntu (linux for human beings) build for eXe ;
- the ability to register for future releases of eXe on eXeLearning.org from the help menu in the package
We welcome feedback from the community, so if you have a few minutes please complete the survey form. We need your feedback and ideas to improve on the technology.
...web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup...For folk who are partial to using Ubuntu, you can try our Ubuntu build. You will need to change your sources list by adding: "deb ftp://ftp.eduforge.org/pub/exe/ubuntu current main" and then executing the "apt-get update" and "apt-get install python2.4-exe" from the terminal window.
Feel free to post your comments and ideas on the Eduforge forums for the eXe project.
