Here we are once more at the end of another year, and one that will see this Christmas message go up on the VBulletin based EduGeek for the last time, but more on that later.
For most it has been a fun packed year with Windows 10 finally arriving and proving to be much better received than Window 8 and with the added benefit that it came free for home/personal upgrades. So, Yay Microsoft!
On the EduGeek front it has been a year of us waiting with baited breath as Invision Power Suite 4 was finally released after a couple of years in development.
IPS 4 is the platform to which we had planned to migrate EduGeek about 2 years back and all we needed to make the move was the migration tool which would allow us to move the site from our current VBulletin 4 based site to IPS 4. Only they didn’t have the tool ready in March when IPS 4 launched and it was only a couple of weeks back that we could finally get our hands on it for testing.
That said, we have now pencilled in a timeframe for the migration which we hopefully intend to do shortly after BETT at the end of January as long as no major issues appear.
IPS 4 will allow us to operate a far more feature-rich and dynamic site and finally launch the much-requested merchandise store, news section, Wiki and lots of other goodies.
Needless to say we are very excited about this and if you come to see us at BETT we shall hopefully have some sneak peeks for you to take a look at.
On another note we do need to apologise for the lack of a conference this year. This was down to our moving the planned date of the conf to October then getting the run around with potential venues as we had intended to host it in Manchester to make it easier for you to get too.
This coupled with our having to also set aside time for the site migration well in advance (reliant on the migration tool being released) meant we only had a couple of dates we could have hosted a conf on but sadly it never all came together.
We WILL be having a conf once more next year.
So, all that remains if for all of us here at EduGeek to say a big THANK YOU to everyone here.
Members, mods, sponsors and all those many people who help us in small ways in the background, we hope you have a wonderful Christmas and we’ll see you at BETT (stand E300 with Smoothwall) in January 
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