Elgg Meets and further development

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.

Last week was awesome, Elgg-wise; we covered the ground necessary for the release of Elgg 1.1, which will be on Monday, November 3rd. Extra APIs were made available that make themes more powerful, and have paved the way for things like Gravatar support. We're also about to publish our roadmap leading to version 1.5, due in February.

Development is continuing quickly: we've got some plugins coming that will make it even easier to develop new functionality on Elgg's engine, as well as some great themes that will take you through different aspects of making Elgg look right for your purposes. More on this soon.