Continuing the discussion from Introduce yourself here:
Hi @openrisk, I’m sorry to read your funding application to add Taler payment support for Moodle and e-learning platforms was rejected.
I’d be interested to learn more about your proposal and rejection process, so we can maybe help you apply again. In any case if you’d like to gather momentum around Moodle for Taler, we can setup a category and group for you.
The thrust of the proposal is to seed an elearning oriented “economy” of sorts, using Taler. Could be official money (e.g. euros) but possibly simply “Kudos” as a form of gamification.
The proposal (Moodle GNU Taler plugin and demo eLearning resources) aims to integrate the Moodle web platform to the GNU Taler network via a payment gateway plugin and the development of eLearning material that will demonstrate the network function in production. The first component is the development and release an open source Moodle payment gateway plugin, enabling GNU Taler functionality for the preeminent open source LMS. The plugin should be easily installable as a standard Moodle plugin and usable by diverse Moodle LMS instances (educational institutions, commercial training providers etc.). It will enable users (learners) to purchase eLearning content (getting access to online courses) using GNU Taler. An example of the plugin will be installed and operated in our own Moodle instance (the Open Risk Academy). A number of accompanying eLearning resources within the Academy will aim to educate about GNU Taler, digital cash and online payments and provide hands-on demonstration of (some) of the underlying principles.
The rejection was boilerplate (too many good ideas, too little money) so not much to go on. If others are interested to help realize this idea my feeling is it is still worthwhile.