Elgg moves forward

December 31, 2008 in Elgg, Social Networking, Technology, open source | 5 comments

Elgg‘s development continues and appears to be progressing toward its next release—version 1.5. The svn revisions “odometer” has begun moving again this week after a brief break following the release of version 1.2.

Elgg’s roadmap states that Curverrider plans to make major relases every six months with Version 1.5 due in February. Several target enhancements due with this release have already been completed:

  • An Administrative interface for customizing profile fields
  • Metastring garbage collection
  • Log Rotation
  • Additional themes

Scalability enhancements are partially completed. Slated further improvements include:

  • Views and plugin location caching
  • A mobile device view
  • An OpenDD client for syndication, imports, and exports (will this mean 0.9–>1.x migration?)
  • Improved front page layout and submenu system
  • The often requested group deletion
  • Drillable site-wide activity stream

Elgg progress is not limited to the work of core developers. We are starting to see institutional support for Elgg development and customization. Kevin Jardine developed are critical event calendar plugin funded by the Royal Institute of British Architects. A large K12 school district in the US is considering an Elgg roll out with monetary support for the necesssary customization by core developers. Other institutions are beginning to pour manpower into Elgg modifications.

These developments bode well for  Elgg’s future. I plan on continuing to support Elgg through a number of means in the future. I look forward to its implementation in K12 education.

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  1. Jonathan’s avatar

    Jonathan on December 31, 2008 at 11:52 am

    Who comes up with this list? Are all these thing badly needed?

    To me, 0.9–>1.x migration is the most important thing, and I don’t see how they can keep making changes without doing that first. I think that was a big mistake not to tackle that first thing.

    The next things on the list should be adding back all the features that were lost in the original version, like the Wall.

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  2. Steve’s avatar

    Steve on December 31, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    I know that the migration was a part of the roadmap in the past. I can only assume that there are some snags in the path. The Curverider folks have a considerable interest in migrating installations from Classic to Elgg 1.x as they have major institutional installations that are still using the older version.

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  3. Cash’s avatar

    Cash on January 2, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    At the current rate, it seems more likely that we’ll see 1.5 in the spring than February.

    I don’t know much about Elgg Classic, but if there is still significant functionality missing in Elgg 1.x plus plugins, what would a migration look like? Would members of classic Elgg sites want to migrate if it meant losing functionality? What would be the minimal set of functionality necessary before a migration to Elgg 1.x is beneficial?

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  4. Phil’s avatar

    Phil on January 4, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    Steve do you remember the drag’n'drop file feature?

    I’m sure that was in the roadmap for 1.5 but I don’t see it there?

    Phil

    Oh one more thing – how do I upload my avatar here?

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    1. Steve’s avatar

      Steve on January 5, 2009 at 4:53 pm

      Yes, I do remember. Perhaps it will be a surprise addition, or there were difficulties with the implementation.

      I certainly hope it appears!

      The avatar appears through gravatars.com. Create an avatar with them, then sites with gravatars enabled will show your avatar based upon the email address.

      Steve

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