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Elgg (software)
Developer(s)
[1]
Curverider Ltd [2] and the open source
community
Stable release 1.7 / March 2, 2010
Written in Php
Operating
system
Cross-platform
Type Social networking
License GPL 2
Website
elgg.org [3]
Elgg is open source social networking software that provides individuals and organizations with the components
needed to create an online social environment. It offers blogging, microblogging, file creation and sharing,
networking, groups, news collection using feeds aggregation and a number of other features.
History
Elgg was founded in 2004 by Dave Tosh and Ben Werdmuller. Combining their experience - Tosh was a
postgraduate student in online education, while Werdmuller was a web developer who had been building and
facilitating online communities since 1995 - they created a social networking approach to e-learning, with the latter
designing the architecture and writing most of the code. Subsequently, they founded the company Curverider Ltd to
continue the development of the software and to provide Elgg-related services. Elgg has since become a
cross-purpose open source social networking platform, produced by a much larger team.
Version 1.0 of Elgg was released on August 18, 2008. [4] This first major release included many features [5] including:
a new data model; [6] import / export; [7] support for OpenDD [8] ) and more.
The most recent release of Elgg is version 1.7 [9] , which was released on March 2, 2010. This version includes
improvements to the core API, the correction of long-standing bugs and enhanced security. On March 4, 2010 it was
announced that work had already begun on version 1.8 [10] of the software, which would focus on enhancing the user
interface aspects of the application.
Elgg is free to download and use. It's licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License GPL as published
by the Free Software Foundation. Elgg runs on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) platform. Details can
be found on the main project website [11] .
Applications
Elgg powers several hundred thousand social networks world-wide and has been particularly successful in business
and education.
Books
In March 2008, Packt Publishing published "Elgg Social Networking [12] " by open source journalist Mayank Sharma
[13] . The book applies to the 0.x versions of Elgg. The book was endorsed [14] by Elgg's former technical lead, Ben
Werdmuller.