Dgroups2 Migration: The Big Picture
Here’s the big picture of our journey to Dgroups 2. Alpha phase – at present we are making sure the Dgroups 2 platform allows one to perform all activities one is used to. Dgroups is all about email: consequently most of our work now is about tuning the new platform to offer what is needed …
Looking into the current Dgroups
The DGroups home page today reports that there are 2674 groups, containing 112366 members and 41919 resources. Last month we downloaded a complete set of statistics from the database, to better understand the story of DGroups and prepare for migration. Which groups count ? On 17th September 2008 the count shown on DGroups home page …
Untangling the Dgroups threads
This stage of a project is a bit like preparing for an international trip: trying to collect together bits and pieces, addresses, contacts, passport, loose change…and do I need anti-malarials? The equivalent in this project is getting to grips with the current status of groups in dgroups. The international community who use dgroups are very …
Top Five Dgroups Email Domains
Here’s some Friday fun for all of us Dgroups lovers: the top five email domains (out of more than 30.000) that Dgroups members use to subscribe to lists over the past six years: Yahoo.com leads the pack (among the top ten, there are also yahoo.es and yahoo.co.in), with Gmail on the rise taking over from …
Dgroups speed-geeking
At a recent FAO and CGIAR knowledge sharing course, participants chose Dgroups as the application they most wanted to learn (share?) about in a ‘speed geeking‘ session. See what they thought of Dgroups!
What’s New: Hierarchical Dgroups
We are introducing hierarchical groups as part of Dgroups 2.0 to help structure relationships among groups that sometime exist. Sometimes one communicates on a topic that has both general and specific components that are naturally organized in a hierarchical relationship. Our migration team is using this hierarchy to simplify communication. Our top-level group, ‘Migration to …
Dgroups 2 – What Will be Different?
Simone, the first to give a comment, speaks for many of us: what will be different? Our aim with this blog is to introduce you gently to the changes and more importantly, to get your feedback on the things with the current platform that gave you trouble the most and what you liked the most. …
Dgroups2 progress and plans
We are off! This blog is the product of a meeting last week in The Hague. It brought together four members of the core project team – Damir Simunic (WA Research – the company selected to deliver dgroups 2.0), Hapee De Groot (Hivos), Mark Hammersley (leading on Communications, amongst other things) and Pete Cranston (Migration …
Dgroups 2.0: Build and Migration
The Dgroups Executive Committee agreed a contract with WA research to build the next version of Dgroups. The contract was signed last week, Thursday. WA Research SA has been in operation since January, 2002, with a mission to build and support collaborative solutions for the international development sector. Customers include the World Health Organisation, the …