International ILIAS Blog

This article is, as you may have gathered from the title, about ILIAS at Learntec. I thought, however, that it might be interesting for you to get a personal perspective of this interesting annual event in the ILIAS calendar - a behind-the-scenes look, so to speak. This is my second year helping out at the ILIAS stand - which makes me a newbie, for ILIAS has been taking part in Karlsruhe's annual trade fair on the topic of education and learning since 1999! 

While we are all still hard at work testing ILIAS 10, the developers of ILIAS are already looking to the future and ILIAS 11. That means it is time for the Big Project Jour Fixe, the first milestone in the development of any new ILIAS version. Big Project Jour Fixes serve to plan and coordinate larger development projects that will have a lasting effect on the platform. The focus is not on concrete feature suggestions, but rather more extensive plans that either require a lot of time and resources or a large number of developers.

The beginning of September (05.09 & 06.09) saw around 200 ILIAS users, developers and interested participants meet up in beautiful Graz to discuss our open-source learning management system. This 23rd International ILIAS Conference marked the first time that the ILIAS community had met in Austria.

The 22^nd International ILIAS conference took place on the 7^th and 8^th September 2023 at the University of Cologne, bringing our community back to the place where everything began – 25 years after the first version of ILIAS went live.