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We're pleased to announce that Elgg 1.1 has left the building.
If you're new to Elgg, you'll be surprised by its flexibility and ease of use. But if you're already running Elgg, why should you upgrade to version 1.1? Here's a couple of reasons:
Your site will run significantly faster. Elgg 1.1 contains database and cache enhancements that make it dramatically more efficient on your server and speedier for your users.
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 Thanks to everyone who made it along to the recent Elgg Meets in Brighton and Edinburgh. It's always good to hear what people are doing (or thinking of doing) with Elgg, and the range is incredible: from artists' communities through commercial social networks, corporate intranets and academic research.
We'll have more meets over the next few months; if you'd like us to come to your neck of the woods, get in touch. (Remember that we can also arrange more formal training sessions.) In addition to this, we'll be helping out on the Open Forum Europe stand at the Linux Expo Live at London Olympia this Thursday, October 23, and on Saturday, October 25th. Of course, we've also got the International Elgg Conference on December 1st in Brighton.
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We're really pleased with the growth in the Elgg Community in the short time it's been online. It's great to see so many people discussing issues, uploading plugins and trying out the system. Perhaps best of all, an array of locale-specific groups has sprung up and are providing translations, proving that Elgg use is worldwide.
A couple of people have mentioned that it looks significantly different to the core Elgg install, and that therefore it must be running on a hacked version of Elgg. This is not the case: the Elgg Community runs on a clean version of the latest codebase in our Subversion repository.
So how did we do it?
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Elgg 1.0 has officially left the building. As we've already announced, it comes in two flavours: a full version with lots of features pre-installed, and a core designed for you to build your own social networking application on top of.
The archive for the full version is 1.43Mb - small enough to fit on a floppy disk, if anyone still used them. The core-only archive weighs in at less than 700k. Elgg is fully-featured and extremely powerful both to run as a stand-alone social network and as a basis for programming on top of. So why is it so small?
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South by Southwest is one of the most exciting festivals and conferences in the world. Every year, thousands of people converge on Austin, Texas to celebrate film, music and the interactive arts. It's where services like Twitter became famous, and Silicon Valley meets digital literates from all over the world.
Because this is a different sort of conference, submitted panels need to be voted on by potential attendees. The panels that people most want to see will get programmed; the others are free to come back and try again next year.
This year, we've submitted a panel about what we're calling the social cloud.
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Some of you have expressed interest in participating in the Elgg 1.0 development process. Here are a couple of ways you can join in and help us test the software.
If you're a less technical user, we'd like to invite you to come into our test community. This is now open for registration, so all you need to do is visit test.elgg.org and sign up for an account. We'd love to hear your feedback, and you'll find an Elgg Feedback group there for the purpose. (Please note that we'll be blanking the database from time to time.)
If you're a developer, we're pleased to announce that our source code repository is now public. Point your Subversion client at the following repositories:
- Core Elgg: https://code.elgg.org/elgg/
- Elgg plugins: https://code.elgg.org/extensions/
Please note that this is not an end user release, and development is still ongoing. The intention is to bring developers in to help us test the platform.
To this end, we've also set up a development mailing list, which you can access over here. There is also an evolving set of documentation.
We hope you enjoy getting into Elgg, and again, please let us know what you think. Thanks!
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 We're pleased to announce that Elgg has been featured as the best open source social networking platform in InfoWorld's 2008 Best Of Open Source Awards. Elgg joins WordPress, which won for best blogging platform, Firefox, which won for best web browser, and MySQL, which was featured as the best database system.
From the article:
While Elgg lets corporations, governments, and schools quickly establish blogs, the system's collaborative features encourage building communities of users with shared interests. Other Elgg fine points include podcast support, file repositories, user profiles, an RSS aggregator, and branding features. Significantly, the software integrates with other IT systems and provides OpenID authentication.
We're pleased to do all that and more with Elgg 1.0, due for release on August 18th.
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One of Elgg's most powerful features since day one has been its access controls. Any item of content you create - an uploaded file, a blog post, an element on your profile - can be restricted to as many or as few people as you want. For example, an event announcement might be publicly viewable, but you might also have some internal notes that you only want your close colleagues to see. Elgg deals with these distinctions securely and easily.
For the latest version, we've dramatically improved both the interface and the flexibility of the access permission system. Creating collections of friends is easier than ever before, and if you don't like Elgg's individual-based access model, you can swap it out with something else - for example, a roles-based access control list.
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One of the core features of Elgg 1.0 is a pair of functions: the event API and the system log. An event in Elgg is an event that is triggered by the user. For example, a blog post might be created, a profile updated, a friend connection established or comment wall note left.
Hooking functionality onto these is incredibly useful for auditing purposes, but it also offers a range of other possibilities.
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