Weekly round-up: stats, roadmap, themes and more stats

During the week I did a little number crunching to find out what has been going on with Elgg since we launched v1.0 around 8 weeks ago. Without going into much depth, the stats are impressive.

• Downloads: in the past 6 weeks downloads of Elgg equate to 1/3 of the total number of downloads since we launched Elgg in March 2005.
• Plugin contributions: since opening up the Elgg community site three weeks ago, plugin contribution equates to 3/4 of the total number of plugins submitted to Elgg since launch in March 2005.

Ben and Marcus volunteered on the OFE stand at the Linux Live Expo this week, both had an interesting time, meeting with other vendors and checking out some of the OS projects on display.

Here is an Elgg presentation given at the recent Barcamp Delhi.

The Elgg team is gearing up to release v1.1 on Nov 3rd.

The Elgg conference on Dec 1st is shaping up nicely, we have around 10 spaces left, so if you want to come, get yourself registered http://elgg.org/events/.

This week we released the v1.5 roadmap. Some very exciting developments on there.

If you are a provider of Elgg services; hosting, custom builds etc. get in touch and tell us a little about it.

Now that we have polls running on the main community site, they are allowing us to gather some interesting figures. Here are a couple of results so far.

1)What is your current desktop browser?

• Firefox v2:7%
• Firefox v3: 64%
• IE6: 0%
• IE7: 7%
• IE8: 2%
• Opera: 2%
• Safari: 15%
• Other: 3%

2)How are you using / planning to use Elgg?

• In education (eLearning) 12%
• As a social Intranet for organisations 9%
• Custom social network 78%
• Other 1%

This week saw the release of some new Elgg themes and theming tutorials. Due to the radical overhaul Elgg underwent for v1.0, it was important to spend some quality time gathering user feedback, tweaking various components and sorting out a few remaining issues before getting stuck into creating new themes. There are a couple of different styles available that people can use as a base for their own themes. Here are a couple (click for larger image).

Soundtrack highlights of the week: Ian Brown F.E.A.R (Unkle mix) and Oasis Dig Out Your Soul