On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Paul B wrote: > Forgive my prodding, but what are you building with this, Robert? i'm doing this for a colleague, who tells me that ELGG is an in-house, social/business collaboration tool. so i just wanted to see how easy it was to set up. > I'll admit to being totally ignorant of elgg and it's capabilities, > but I've been mulling over what a family website might include, and > this looks like an impressively complete package. Beats smashing > together smarty and ubb and Web calendar and ... > > Is this a complete and manageable package, or am I going to spend > more time on a learning curve than I have in the form of personal > hours? from scratch, i had it running in about an hour, and documented my adventures here: http://www.crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/ELGG_1.8b1_on_Ubuntu_10.10 and there are apparently some serious deployments based on ELGG, such as at mitre corp: http://www-search.mitre.org/search?client=mitre&site=mitre&proxystylesheet=mitre&oe=utf8&q=elgg&output=xml_no_dtd&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Search so some people clearly take it seriously. it might be overkill for a family web site but that's not what i'm evaluating it for. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================