Month: January 2007

After an easy upgrade process, Elgg.net is back online. We’ve recoded the way the front page works on the backend – which won’t make much difference to you, but makes maintaining the site much easier for us. So what can you expect from this upgrade? The first thing you’ll probably notice is the new toolbar, […]

Paul Allison has uploaded a couple of really fascinating videos of K-12 students using the Elgg site on Youthvoices.net over at Youtube. Here’s the latest. Students are creating podcasts, embedding videos, writing blog posts and more. {{video:http://www.youtube.com/v/VdyM3oke2tE}} Exciting stuff!

Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU (PDF link) is worth a read, particularly for page 216: The reason it seems desirable to promote the use of FLOSS [Free/Libre/Open Source Software] in education (ICT education and more generally all educational […]

I’m really happy with the way the Elgg development mailing list has been shaping up lately – so far this month we’ve had lots of discussion of everything from how we do the Elgg.net front page through LaTeX plugins and speed enhancement. You can sign up or look at the archives over here.