The agenda of the meeting was organized in three main parts:

• Dgroups business meeting – Presentation by the Dgroups Board on progress in 2017 across the 9 work areas of the Dgroups work plan and proposed objectives for 2018, followed by questions and discussion.

• Technical development – Presentation from WA-Research on features recently released and currently in the pipeline, followed by questions and discussion;

• Dgroups case study – A presentation by Sean Furey and Saskia Harmsen on how the Rural Water Supply Network has been using Dgroups to support communication and knowledge exchange.

The full report of the meeting is available for current partners on the Dgroups wiki [login required].

You can also view the presentation, prepared with inputs from the different Board members, on priorities and progress in the 9 work areas of the Dgroups work plan; and the presentation from Damir Simunic and Joe Canda (WA-Research) on recent technical developments and priorities for future work on the CommunityCloud platform, the software that enables Dgroups.

In the last Board meeting, the Board of the Dgroups Foundation has set the date for the 2017 Dgroups Annual Partners Meeting. 

This year’s meeting will be held online on Thursday 30th November 2017, from 10 am to 12 pm (Amsterdam, Rome, Brussels –  you can check the exact time in your timezone using this link: http://ow.ly/qXe330g3F35.

The meeting will include:

• The Dgroups Partners business meeting, with review of 2017 Dgroups Activities and 2018 Work Plan
• A presentation from WA-Research on current and future technical developments
• A presentation of the recently published case study on using Dgroups to scale up networking in the Rural Water Sanitation Network.

We hope all Dgroups Partners will be able to join the Meeting. If you are interested in participating, please register here: https://goo.gl/forms/tm1oqOKE7SrGr0Bq2. See below who else has already registered.

In the following days and after you have registered, you will receive more details on the agenda and the platform we will use for the meeting.