To know who you are, you have to know where you've been. HAX is born out of a decade of work around making it easier for faculty, students and staff to be creative with online materials and more easily structure them. While we don't use the original code of these efforts, it informed the world view that goes into HAX as a future vehicle for empowering human creativity on the internet while reducing costs and energy used in order to do that empowering.
If you care to experience the milestones in video form to see the progression of HAX from nothing to where it is, project creator Bryan Ollendyke recorded a talk about where HAX came from
and its influences.
- 2007
- Foundation of College of Arts & Architecture's e-Learning Institute (now known as Office of Digital Learning)
- Bryan and Bill among first employees hired to the institute in '07
- 2008
- ELMS first written down to quantify the work being done for online education
- 2008-2015 - ELMS and hundreds of Drupal modules released as open source to improve online education
- 2015
- ELMS: Learning Network a recognized open source project by the Apereo Foundation
- 2015
- HAX dreamed in a coffee shop while presenting about ELMS:LN project work at a conference
- 2016
- First HAX Prototype discussed online using voice to author block content
- 2017
- HAX prototype presented at first national event
- 2018
- HAXSchema and API taking shape and discussed at second national event
- 2019
- HAX begins to be developed as part of "Project EdTechJoker" in Bryan's IST curriculum
- 2019
- HAXcms announced at national event as natural evolution of small CMS if block editor does everything
- 2019
- National Archives performs the first UX audit of HAX to improve the authoring experience
- 2019
- the first HAX camp is held at Duke bringing in people across the country to learn about HAX / Web components
- 2020
- Magic script changes out HAX integrations operate to reduce it to a single line of javascript
- 2021
- HAXcms replaces ELMS:LN's theme layer. ELMS:LN now is effectively a legacy backend + HAXcms frontend
- 2021
- Eberly College of Science begins delivering courses through HAX.psu
- 2022
- IST students begin contributing multiple elements to HAX per semester
- 2022
- IST student team of four builds the 8-bit user flow for creating websites in HAX
- 2022
- IST student team presents what they made at HAX camp PSU along with announcement of hax.psu.edu
- 2022
- HAX11ty adopted by Penn State University Libraries to deliver multiple online texts
- 2023
- HAX.psu begins gaining adoption and delivers online courses for four different units at Penn State
- 2023
- HAXcms presented at national event and Reclaim cloud adds technology to their systems
- 2023
- IST students regularly contribute to HAX via classroom learning via course projects
- 2024
- DDD - Develop, Design, Destroy initiative kicks off, design of the system begins to feel cohesive
- 2024
- Invent Penn State performs additional UX testing, launches and joins community calls regularly
- 2024 - 9.x.x released with multiple sustainable replacements for H5P and HAX to DDD integration
- 2024+
- Our story continues..