Dgroups Swiss update
This week, Maarten Boers and Peter Ballantyne were in Switzerland to meet with WA Research on the status of the Dgroups migration process. We also met with Dgroups members Helvetas and Swiss Development Cooperation. Helvetas has so far been gradually introducing and using Dgroups into its activities. It also acts as sponsor for the very …
Joining the Dgroups migration
Here at Euforic, we have had a chance to participate in the ‘beta’ testing of the new Dgroups platform. As a heavy and long-time Dgroups user, Dgroups creator, and overall Dgroups coordinator, I have many interests in the new platform. I was immediately very reassured by the reliable email system in the new ‘D2’ … …
Dgroups 2 – Migration gathers speed
The final phase of the migration to the new Dgroups platform (Dgroups 2) from the old platform (Dgroups 1) has begun this week. This post summarises progress and plans. No new Groups on Dgroups 1 The people who create Dgroups (known helpfully as creators) have been asked not to create any more on the old …
Dgroups 2 – Are you ready ?
It is now about four months since DGroups Partner organisations started to prepare their groups for migration to the new platform, and a lot of “house keeping” has been done since then. Thanks to your hard work, most organisations and most groups are now ready. Overall, 67% of all groups on the original DGroups server …
dgroups2 – the end of the beginning
On Tuesday 16th December Dgroups Executive Committee accepted our recomendation that the new platform is sufficiently developed for us to begin the migration process. We will be publishing more details this week and next on how the migration will take place. In the meantime, the work of tidying up group ownership is almost complete. The …
dgroups 2 – 2 groups
A quick end of the week post to record progress on a significant milestone, in two ways. The first group from Dgroups 1 was migrated across to the new platform at the end of last week. Hapee de Groot of Hivos, for it is a group that he manages, has been testing it with his …
Dgroups2 – milestones and progress
Here again is the dgroups interface, larger this time, because at least one reader found the previous screen dump too small. As you can see a number of people have continued to test the platform and make comments on features as they are added. As you would expect, people’s reactions are mixed. There are features …
Dgroups – a Bellanet sized hole
In 2002, Bellanet, IICD, OneWorld, DFID, and UNAIDS Southeast Asia got together to build Dgroups on top of some existing workspace applications that Bellanet had developed and were providing one by one to their partner organizations. For those of you that don’t know, the original Dgroups platform uses two pieces of software: the Lyris mailing …
Same, but different Dgroups
Here is a sneak preview of the new dgroups environment, alongside the dgroups we all know and love. The team and a small number of volunteers are experimenting with this early Alpha version. It is built from the existing ECS platform and, as we write, additional functions are being developed and added. Clearly, since it …
Calling all Dgroup leaders
Last week we sent a message to everyone on the DGroup Administrators’ Announcement list. It had 5015 email addresses subscribed. You probably received a copy of the message. If you did not see it, and if you are a leader, facilitator or administrator of a group hosted on DGroups, please go to www.dgroups.org/groups/administrators/ and join …