In 2006 I joined the Catalyst team that wrote Mahara and created the open source community around it. Now, nearly two years on, Mahara has reached 1.0 and shows immense promise as an e-portfolio solution. The community is small but growing fast, the software is a little rough but improving fast. Mahara will only get better as it matures and more people adopt it.

My day-to-day job includes coding on Mahara, talking with other users and managing the open source side of the project. It's a really challenging, interesting job.

Two of my favourite pieces of work on Mahara have been Pieforms and the view editing interface. My least favourite part about the project is having to support MySQL. Thus, an easy way for you to get better support from me if you have a problem is mention that you're running Mahara on Postgres, a vastly superior database system.