Dgroups platforms updates
As you might have already noticed WA Research has recently released some new updates in functionalities and features to further develop the Dgroups platform. Public interface From the Dgroups homepage, users can now login to their groups or join new groups in a much clearer way. Directory of groups When clicking on ‘Join a group’ …
Reflecting on the Dgroups partnership
Earlier today, members of the Dgroups Partnership completed their meeting in The Hague. It was followed by a brief meeting of the new Board. For the first time, members could participate virtually in some parts of the discussions, opening a new chapter for Dgroups. New Helvetas Board member Riff Fullan reflects on the discussions: [youtube_video …
Dgroups elects new Board
Today in The Hague, members of the Dgroups Partnership elected a new Board to guide the Partnership in the coming years. The organizations elected were: Helvetas Hivos ICCO IICD Sula Batsu
Dgroups members meet in The Hague
On 15 and 16 April, the members of the Dgroups partnership meet in the Netherlands. The group last met in The Hague in January 2007. Since then, an elected executive committee has worked towards: In 2007/2008: Moving the dgroups 1 platform out of IDRC (to IGLOO) In 2008-2009: Migration to a new platform and a …
Dgroups Foundation established
Earlier this month the Dgroups Foundation was established in the Netherlands. After early years incubated by Bellanet/IDRC as a project, Dgroups members decided that a legal entity was needed at the heart of the partnership. The intention is to keep the Foundation small and smart: It will have a Board elected from members of the …
How many migrated with Dgroups?
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 …
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 …