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 …
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 …