Is Commons ELGG in Drupal?

Posted by david.moore.ipg on May 25, 2012 at 11:44am

http://www.elgg.org/

I just signed up for a learning community through work and the site was organized so much like Commons, I just knew that was what it was built on. But no, it is ELGG.

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commons = Drupal-based - but not elgg

Posted by unleash on May 25, 2012 at 12:37pm

hello David,

thx for stepping up the plate. Elgg is different to Drupal.

But you can be happy - Drupal Commons running D 7 will be released within the next few Weeks. At least this is what i have learned within the last 4 weeks. One thing is sure: The whole world and many many Drupalized ppl from all over the planet are waitin for the new version of Drupal-commons -running on D7.

Just have a closer look at the threads - where Many involved ppl, talk about the release and the last steps.

amont the many that are discussin the toping there were some prominent membes:
Mariomaric
Eizra G
lots of Aquiqua-ppl and d evelopers

Just take a quick veiew on the various threads and topics and see that the communiy as itself

great to hear from you
greetings
Unleash & have the best time of you live

drupal is better than elgg

Posted by crimsondryad on May 26, 2012 at 5:14am

Yes, the commons functionality will be similar to elgg, but with fundamental differences. I've built a project with elgg and the code is difficult to nearly impossible to extend or work with. The communityis also very small. With drupal you can easily plug in modules to change how the site works. Elgg just isn't that flexible.

good day dear crimsondryad -

Posted by unleash on May 26, 2012 at 12:04pm

good day dear crimsondryad - many thanks for sharing the experience.
great to hear your ideas and insights .

Well - as the release of commons on d 7 allready is estimated for july
we all should focus on this great plan. It is awesome for the whole drupal-community. I guess that there are more than 5 000 friends waitin for the release -

many many guys are workin day and night on this plan - ezra-g, mariomaric and hundreds of others . ...

it is a brigth and great future - were have in front.

have a great day... greetings unleash

Follow up

Posted by izkreny on May 26, 2012 at 1:41pm

@unleash: Thx for your kind words. :)
The best way to follow development of Commons on Drupal 7 is meta issue: http://drupal.org/node/1205556

@crimsondryad: wow, thx for your feedback, I checked their web site and instantly was wondering what is all about. ;)

hello dear mariomaric

Posted by unleash on May 27, 2012 at 12:30pm

many many thanks for the head-up and for the hints regarding the best way to follow the devevelopment of Commons on Drupal 7.

in the last few weeks there were several sources of information. It is very very good and helpful to know the main source of information.

Many many thanks for your engaged work and all you do. The broader audience of Drupalers need to know where the information on the development is available.

You do a lot with your kind of tech-evangelization that communicates the good news to the world. Please keep up your great job. We need you and your engaged work.

You are important to the whole community.

@crimsondryad: again - many thx for your feedback!!!

greetings from good old Europe..

unleash

Looking for information

Posted by bodyblueprinter on May 28, 2012 at 10:50pm

on how to change the term "filter" so that it is more intuitive to members of my commons site? If this is the wrong place to post this, please point me in the correct direction. BTW, new to Drupal.
Thank you for your support and help

String overrides

Posted by izkreny on May 29, 2012 at 6:40pm

Hi bodyblueprinter!

I think what you are looking for is http://drupal.org/project/stringoverrides module.

If you have or encounter more question / issues, it would be better to post them (or maybe first search for similar) @ Commons issue queue: http://drupal.org/project/issues/commons

There is also Commons community site: http://commons.acquia.com/

Cheers! :)

Stringoverrides

Posted by bodyblueprinter on May 30, 2012 at 5:06am

THANK YOU! This was exactly what I needed, had no idea to look for it this way.
Thanks again.

The Commons community site has not yielded much help over the last year I am afraid. Stopped utilizing once groups got spammed

You are right!

Posted by izkreny on May 30, 2012 at 11:40am

Commons community site isn't of much help..
But, issue queue is just fine and beside maintainers there are couple more people checking it.

Glad I was able to help you. :)

Cya.

Ellg is easy and its mature

Posted by newusage on August 9, 2012 at 7:47am

Ellg is easy and its mature but lacks many options for commoners. It has about 1500 plugins and themes. Here is a bit of information of interest

http://galaxiess2.blogspot.com/2012/06/buddypress-vs-elgg-case-study-and...