Martin Dougiamas

I feel this is a grave misrepresentation.

To be accurate, I removed the use of the word "certified" from one page in the docs as soon as it was brought to my attention. (Gustav had erroneously put it there long ago).

The particular word "certified" has certain connotations and I don't use it. However, just because partners aren't "certified" doesn't mean that they aren't fairly thoroughly vetted in the first place and periodically reviewed afterwards. They are. We spend a lot of time doing this. We also help educate Partners in new Moodle issues as they arise. We've also terminated several partnerships that were not meeting certain levels of quality.

The partnership contract is nothing unusual in the business world. The general terms are well known (I talk about it at every Moodlemoot,for example) and are that partners are allowed to use the Moodle trademark to advertise their services, and in return they pay 10% of gross revenue to the Moodle Trust.

What would be unusual would be publishing full private contracts on the web or sending them to unqualified inquirers so that they can publish it. I don't know any companies that do. Perhaps you can email me some links.

(P.S. Out of interest (IANAL) are you serious about libel? Your profile and presence on these forums don't suggest that you are a practicing lawyer so I don't know how we are supposed to know if you are, but I'd appreciate knowing how the statement "If you understood law you would know that xxx..." is a libelous statement.)

Hi all,

We're planning to formally release Moodle 1.9.6 soon.

Currently we're planning a code freeze (or at least a slushie ;) ) starting next Tuesday 6th October 2009 on the usual weekly testing day. This means all developers should avoid any check-ins from that date that have the potential to cause any kind of regressions.

The intention is to keep the 1.9 stable branch in this state for heavier-than-usual testing for about two weeks (longer than usual) with obvious/easy bug fixes only, and then release 1.9.6 formally on 21st October 2009.

As usual, Moodle admins who registered for notifications will get an email with more details about a week before the final release.

(Note if you are using the weekly 1.9.5+ builds then you pretty much already have 1.9.6)

There is one already, it's called http://moodle.org

Since you don't have access to the files, I would look into using a Resource.

Add the resource somewhere (course or home page) and look in the advanced settings at the parameters you can pass to the external URL.

http://docs.moodle.org/en/File_or_website_link#Parameters

See the bottom of that section for some security suggestions.

1. Are you looking at the "Files" option under the Course admin menu? This shouldn't even be showing for most courses (it's legacy only) and is not yet fully functional. Usually, all new files are added from moodleforms inside the activity etc, and there you will already find full functionality for zipping etc (try adding a Folder from the resource menu to see it).

2. No, because the files are not stored raw on disk any more.... but there will be WebDAV access. However, also notice if your large file is being published on nearly every type of server, then you will be able to PULL it into Moodle from within the filepicker.