Any one familiar with #mahara?

I can't tell if is a thing each student runs for themself, or they pick one, or their school runs it, or their national gov or what.....

As a dev for a university should I make one for my students or should I supprt some existing one?

@Br3nda typically #Mahara is run by an institution, e.g., here at The University of Waikato we offer students the ability to create an #ePortfolio on our Mahara server (although it's hosted for us by Catalyst) https://eportfolio.waikato.ac.nz/
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Mahara is an open source ePortfolio and social networking web application. It provides people with tools to create and maintain a digital portfolio of their learning and social networking features to allow them to interact with each other.