What are the main innovations that Forma Lms has introduced? In this post, we'll have a look at the most important ones.

Forma Lms was born today! 

Now you can download and install your new elearning platform, Forma LMS. 

A group of companies active in the elearning and web developement sector decided to continue the abandoned open source version of the LMS "Docebo", in order to mantain its open spirit and give its users a new community.

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.