The project
Vision
Knowledge, through learning, is probably the most critical asset for any company willing to stay competitive and alive. And, today, knowledge is delivered and collected digitally.
At the same time, knowledge is operated and expressed and increased by each human being within an organization, through their skills and competences. People transform knowledge in value. So today in the training industry we are facing a complex perfect storm scenario that could be described in a single sentence:
diffuse digital knowledge, human-centered companies
Modern organizations need adaptive models to face the challenges of their markets: the emerging paradigm of open innovation is defining the new rules of the game. That's why whe chose to be open to evolving diversity starting from our core code with an open source licencing model, and that's why we based forma.association on the principes of participation, sharing and networking. This makes forma much more than just a piece of software: it is a different way to software creation and collaboration.
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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 chosen after a research and a survey involving over 50 people, including clients, elearning and HR consultants, managers, trainers, coaches, developers, and designers.
The Logo
The hand is the main tool for us to get to know and to understand the world. The hand-print is the first shape ("forma") a baby learns to draw, the first message left by our prehistorical parents in the caves. At the same time, the hand recalls the concepts of usability and accessibility.
Emotional and non-technical, the organic hand in the first version of the logo wanted to focus out that knowledge comes from human interaction and that technology is just a tool and a medium.
With its clean lines, the 2018 logo restyling speaks about the project modernity (while still mantaining some "tribal" feeling in its long fingers). Also, it puts a man raising his hands at the center of the project, representing the community participation and the focus on end users.
Our Story
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, aiming at 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 dozens 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 dozens of changes in new functionalities and bugfixes, coming both from the community and from the partners' experience: FORMA LMS was born!
The forma.lms association
By the beginning of 2017 the community was still growing and the partnes had created a unique and strong collaboration method, so the whole project finally evolved in a stable organization: the forma.association 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 to 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.
The people behind Forma LMS
A core group of stakeholders and a second layer of companies and developers committed to the project. An informal network, to keep costs low and to focus on added value
Founded by the project partners, the forma.association groups toghether companies and individuals wishing to support the Forma LMS project.
Companies sponsoring the development of fixes or new functions that are later integrated into the open-source version of the product. It has been so for years, for our group of partners and for all the stakeholders: this mechanism will only be potentiated with Forma Lms. The contributions from the customers will be acknowledged.
We will always welcome and acknowledge the precious contributions from the user community. The contributions will also be rewarded as much as possible with visibility and special conditions.
We will always welcome and acknowledge the precious contributions from the user community. The contributions will also be rewarded as much as possible with visibility and special conditions.
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.
