Elgg (software)
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| Elgg | |
|---|---|
| Developed by | Curverider Ltd and the open source community |
| Latest release | 0.9 / Dec 24, 2007 |
| OS | Cross-platform |
| Genre | Social Networking |
| License | GPL |
| Website | elgg.org |
Elgg is a white label, open source social networking platform. It offers blog, networking, community, collecting of news using feeds aggregation and file sharing features. Everything can be shared among users with access controls and everything can be cataloged by tags as well.
Elgg is licensed under the GPL, and runs on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) platform. It can be setup to integrate with MediaWiki, Vanilla (forum) and Drupal, as well as use plug-ins to provide a calendar, a wiki and more. Details can be found on the main project website. Elgg was originally started by Ben Werdmuller and David Tosh, who subsequently founded Curverider. It has been under development since 2004.
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[edit] Education
Elgg had gained a lot of traction in the educational sphere, where it has been positioned as a Personal Learning Environment (PLE) or as an Eportfolio tool.
- Community@Brighton (University of Brighton)
- Claremont Conversation (Claremont Graduate University)
- Leeds Elgg (University of Leeds)
- Stoa (University of São Paulo)
- Commun-IT
- TU Graz (Graz University of Technology)
- HTIC (Hawaii Tokai International College)
It is also being used in the academic research sphere to support collaborating researchers.
[edit] See Also
[edit] External links
[edit] Official Elgg resources
[edit] News and press
- The writing's on the wall for paper and pencil (2006-05-16) and A space on the web that we control (2006-03-07), The guardian
- Run your own ‘MySpace’ with Elgg Spaces, ZDNet on 2006-11-10
- Elgg - social network software for education, Read/WriteWeb on 2006-08-11
- An open source education, Network World on 2006-09-25
- Community 2.0, TechLearning on 2006-08-15
- Don't Tell Your Parents: Schools Embrace MySpace, Wired on 2007-04-19
- Elgg was a finalist in the New Statesman New Media awards 2007
- Elgg second best Open Source Social Networking CMS
