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After several months in private beta, we’re excited to announce that BitNami Cloud Hosting is now available! BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications in the cloud.

• One-click Application Deployment: Launch servers with one or more applications or development stacks from the BitNami library in one click. Currently available applications include: SugarCRM, Alfresco, JasperServer, Drupal, Wordpress and many others. You can view a list at: http://bitnami.org/cloud/apps
• Automatic Backups and One Click Server Restores: BitNami Cloud Hosting offers automated backups that can … more

We are pleased to announce new BitNami Stacks for Moodle 2.0, the latest stable release of Moodle. This new release has several major new features:

• Community hubs, a directory of courses for public use or private communities.
• Repository support which allows Moodle to integrate with external repositories of content like Alfresco, Amazon S3, YouTube among others.
• Portofio support, so now modules can export their data to external systems.
• Course completion and prerequisites.
• Conditional activites.
• Web services support for administrative systems or mobile clients.
• Integration with plagiarism prevention tool such as Turnitin.

Thanks to BitNami Moodle Stack user Tim Daniels, BitNami will be showcased at the Converge Conference in Victoria, Australia. Tim will be teaching people about BitNami and Moodle and showing off the online learning environment he built using BitNami Moodle Stack. Tim started working on developing web-based resources for his local Community Center three years ago on their local server. As the project grew, it began to get a bit unwieldy. He found Moodle online but then realized he would have to install and configure PHP, MySQL and other dependencies – something he was not familiar with. He … more