Keep Forma Open,
Make Forma Yours
Play your part in the exciting adventure
of creating Forma 5
Modern Design
Modern and responsive layout and designed for an easy and engaging user experience
Multi Client
Manage multiple clients and brands with custom layouts from a single platform
Custom Reports
Easily create advanced custom reports
Extend Features
Add and customize features to make it perfect for your needs
Why "Forma"?
The italian word "FORMA" means "shape", it is the beginning of "Formazione" (the italian for "training") and the end of "piattaforma" (italian for "platform"), and is also part of "Informazione" (information) and "Performance". The name suggests the product ability to adapt to different organizational contexts. It recalls the italian origins of the project, sounds meaningful in english, and has the same meanings also in spanish, mantaining almost the same pronounce in most languages. Simple but efffective, the name was choosen after a research and a survey involving over 50 people, including clients, elearning and HR consultants, managers, trainers, coaches, developers, and designers.
The Logo
Emotional and non-technical, the organic hand in the logo wants to focus out that knowledge comes from human interaction and that technology is just a tool and a medium.
The hand is the main tool for us to know and understand the world. The hand-print is the first shape ("forma") a baby learns to draw, the first message left by our preistorical parents in the caves. At the same time, the hand recalls the concepts of usability and accessibility.
FORMA is the natural evolution, or if you prefer a "fork", of the last open source version of the LMS platform Docebo.
The Big Bang
The program was originally developed by Docebo Srl and released under a GPL V. 2.0 license with no licensing costs. Since February 2012 Docebo switched his business model to a commercial cloud distribution, pointing to a different market sector. The original open source version and its community were left abandoned, and so hundreds of companies that adopted this software all over the world.
The "new community for old docebo users"
Having several years of experience on this software with many clients, and several clients using Docebo Open Source, the Elearnit team decided to open a new community to collect the experiences of other docebo users and try to keep the project alive. The "new community for old docebo users" was immediately reactive and partecipative, many users began sharing fixes and new features: by the following year, the community counted almost 300 active users and over 2.000 post, with tens of new modules, patches and bugfixes shared for free.
A new beginning
A group of partner companies worked hard to create a new identity and a new developement workflow for the software, and by October 2013 managed to release a new version of the original platform, including a new template and more than 70 changes in new functionalities and bugfixes, coming both from the community and from the partners experience: FORMA LMS was born!
A challenging future
Will this wild bunch of braves manage to keep this project alive, and to make it grow? Maybe not. Or maybe we will find a way make companies, consultants, developers and simple users to collaborate in some innovative way we couldn't even imagine at the beginning of the story, and this would be a incredible success, greater than any software improvement: because the real challenge is not about technology, is about people.
MAKE YOUR OPINION COUNT!
The Forma Lms project is driven by the community of its adopters, organized in the forma.association
Become a member to support the project and make your opinion count: join the association now!
Get POWER from FLEXIBILITY
A learning management system designed to fit the specific needs of your organization: start with all the features of a standard LMS, configure it with hundreds of available options, integrate with your other systems through connectors and APIs, extend with lots of available plugins, or add your custom features.
Forget the limits of saas platform and get free: here EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
Open Source for Open Innovation
Knowledge, through learning, today is probably the most critical asset for any company willing to stay competitive and alive. Modern organizations need adaptive models to face the challenges of their markets: that's why whe choose to be open to evolving diversity since our core code with an open source licencing model, and based the forma.association on the principes of participation, sharing and networking.
