{"id":194,"date":"2012-04-02T08:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T08:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2012-04-02T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T08:13:13","slug":"moodle-1-9-long-term-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/moodle-1-9-long-term-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Moodle 1.9 Long Term Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moodle HQ ends support for Moodle 1.9 Security fixes in June and there seems to be a large number of people in the community who aren&#8217;t ready to upgrade to Moodle 2 quite yet. I <a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.org\/mod\/forum\/discuss.php?d=196713#p858229\">offered to personally continue support<\/a> for Serious Security fixes until Dec 2012 and had a range of people get in touch with feedback(thanks!). I also sent a bunch of e-mails looking for someone to help to fund support for a longer period as the extension by 6 months wasn&#8217;t quite long enough for some people I&#8217;ve been talking with.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to announce that I have found a sponsor that will allow the team here at <a title=\"Catalyst IT - An Authorised Moodle Partner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catalyst.net.nz\">Catalyst IT<\/a> to continue support for serious security issues with Moodle 1.9 until December 2013<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Totara LMS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totaralms.com\">Totara LMS<\/a> is funding\/sponsoring this work which is great! &#8211; hopefully this will ease the concerns of organisations who are not quite ready to upgrade to Moodle 2.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted more info about these plans in the moodle.org forums <a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.org\/mod\/forum\/discuss.php?d=199706\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My employer <a title=\"Catalyst IT - An Authorised Moodle Partner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.catalyst.net.nz\">Catalyst IT<\/a> is an authorised <a title=\"Moodle Partners\" href=\"http:\/\/moodle.com\/partners\/list\/\">Moodle Partner<\/a> and we have offices in UK\/AU\/NZ, we provide a range of services focused around free and open source technologies including products such as Moodle\/Mahara\/Drupal\/Koha and many others.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Totara LMS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.totaralms.com\">Totara LMS<\/a> is custom distribution of Moodle targeted at the corporate sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moodle HQ ends support for Moodle 1.9 Security fixes in June and there seems to be a large number of people in the community who aren&#8217;t ready to upgrade to Moodle 2 quite yet. I offered to personally continue support for Serious Security fixes until Dec 2012 and had a range of people get in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moodle","tag-moodle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danmarsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}