Chamilo is a free software (under GNU/GPL licensing) e-learning and content management system, aimed at improving access to education and knowledge globally.

The Chamilo project aims at ensuring the availability and quality of education at a reduced cost, through the distribution of its software free of charge,[2] the improvement of its interface for third world countries devices portability and the provision of a free access public e-learning campus.

The reaction to the fork was immediate, with more than 500 active users registering on the Chamilo forums in the first fortnight and more contributions collected in one month than in the previous whole year.

[5][6][7] In 2009, members of the Dokeos community started working actively on the One Laptop Per Child project together with a primary school in Salto, Uruguay.

[8] One of the founding members of the Chamilo Association then registered as a contributing project for the OLPC in which his company would make efforts to ensure the portability of the platform to the XO laptop.

The association was created to serve the general goal of improving the Chamilo project's organization and to avoid a conflict of interest between the organization controlling the software project decision process and the best interests of the community using the software.

The Peruvian private Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola reported 1,700 users connected in the same 120 seconds time frame in August 2011.