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• Some Elgg community site functions resumed

  January 2, 2009 in Elgg, Social Networking, Technology, open source

  In the past few days, Curverider has reopened access to many features of their community site. Some functionality has been restored. Group owners have the option of turning their forums back on. It also appears that comments are now available for plugins and templates.
  In addition, Dave Tosh has opened a discussion pertaining to the Elgg [...]

• Elgg Calendar plugin arrives

  January 1, 2009 in Elgg, Social Networking, Technology, open source

  A long sought after calendar plugin for Elgg has been created by Kevin Jardine. This add-on, commissioned by the Royal Society of Architects, provides an event calendar for each group created in the Elgg installation.
  Event Calendar requires Elgg 1.1 or higher. The only departure for a standard installation is that the plugin’s directory should be [...]

• Elgg moves forward

  December 31, 2008 in Elgg, Social Networking, Technology, open source

  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 [...]

• MediaWiki embed in WordPress

  December 30, 2008 in Blogging, Technology, open source, wordpress

  Matt Leifer commented on my post about the advent of BuddyPress wondering if there was some sort of integration with a wiki and WordPress. His question aroused my curiousity as I use WordPress and MediaWiki. Indeed there is a very interesting WordPress plugin that works MediaWiki.
  Append Wiki Page by Enej Bajgoric at the University of [...]

• BuddyPress user test drive part 1

  December 29, 2008 in Blogging, Social Networking, Technology, open source

  BuddyPress has a trial site in which you can sign up for an account and give it a test run, much like the folks at Curverider did many months ago. It gives everyone an opportunity to experience the user interface. I signed up for an account and gave it a quick test drive. I will [...]