Upvote & more! New Update for Crowducate.

Vote up, Upvote

Crowducate listened to the user feedback and here’s the new update:

  • You can now upvote each course. Besides, courses are not sorted by the time they were created anymore but by the numbers of upvotes.
  • The author’s name is now shown for each course. Crowducate is not anonymous as e.g. Wikipedia. The vision is that teachers, instructors, coaches etc. can build up a reputation inside Crowducate, which is useful for them outside Crowducate.
  • The age categorization was very unpopular, so it’s gone.

To upvote, press the orange button. The number of upvotes and the author’s name are shown in the lower part of the course summary. We hope you like it. Let us know what you think in the comments section, via Twitter or email! More things to come can be seen in the roadmap post.

Image credit: Vote by alcantar214

Why we chose the GPL License for our Open Source Project

Open Source gpl License

Update 20/01/2015: We changed the license to APGL. Have a look at the comments why.  

Many developers in the open source hemisphere just want to contribute code. Reading or understanding licenses is simply annoying. They just don’t care. However, if we don’t pick any license and publish our code on GitHub, this means “nobody else may reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from your work”. And for sure, this is NOT what we are intending.

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