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Category: migration

How many migrated with Dgroups?

dgroups | migration

On February 13th, we ‘closed’ the original Dgroups installation hosted in Canada – switching to the new platform. By February 20th, all the data was fully migrated to Switzerland. How many made the migration? Our colleagues at WA research report: “As of today we have 122,187 users registered in 2,227 ‘active’ and 440 ‘archived’ Dgroups …

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Joining the Dgroups migration

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’ … …

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Dgroups 2 – Migration gathers speed

dgroups | migration

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 …

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Dgroups 2 – Are you ready ?

dgroups | migration

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 …

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dgroups2 – the end of the beginning

dgroups | migration

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 …

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dgroups 2 – 2 groups

dgroups | migration

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 …

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Dgroups2 – milestones and progress

build | dgroups | en | migration

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 …

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Dgroups2 Migration: The Big Picture

dgroups | en | migration

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 …

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Untangling the Dgroups threads

dgroups | en | migration

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 …

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What’s New: Hierarchical Dgroups

dgroups | en | migration

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 …

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