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On the Elgg front, I spent a good portion of the week optimising various parts of the system and drastically reducing the number of queries per page.
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We're pleased to announce that Elgg 1.1 has left the building.
If you're new to Elgg, you'll be surprised by its flexibility and ease of use. But if you're already running Elgg, why should you upgrade to version 1.1? Here's a couple of reasons:
Your site will run significantly faster. Elgg 1.1 contains database and cache enhancements that make it dramatically more efficient on your server and speedier for your users.
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During the week I did a little number crunching to find out what has been going on with Elgg since we launched v1.0 around 8 weeks ago. Without going into much depth, the stats are impressive.
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It has been a busy week!
We started the week with the ongoing push towards Elgg 1.1, including a number of bug fixes and some translations. The biggest change this week was to move sessions over to a database store - this provides more scalability options as well as making things more secure on shared hosts.
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 One of the most requested things surrounding Elgg is to do with theming. The interface for Elgg v1.0 underwent a radical overhaul, therefore, the past six weeks have been spent gathering user feedback, tweaking various components and sorting out a few remaining issues. I am pleased to say that we are now ready to move to the next phase of interface work, the creation of themes.
Over the coming weeks Elgg users can expect to see a whole range of new themes that we hope will demonstrate just how much control you have over theming an Elgg application. The first two (see thumbnail right) are basic ones to help those interested in theming get to grips with the components of an Elgg theme. As time goes on, we shall experiment more to include different layouts and styles.
To find out more, visit the Elgg theming group.
Happy theming!
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 Thanks to everyone who made it along to the recent Elgg Meets in Brighton and Edinburgh. It's always good to hear what people are doing (or thinking of doing) with Elgg, and the range is incredible: from artists' communities through commercial social networks, corporate intranets and academic research.
We'll have more meets over the next few months; if you'd like us to come to your neck of the woods, get in touch. (Remember that we can also arrange more formal training sessions.) In addition to this, we'll be helping out on the Open Forum Europe stand at the Linux Expo Live at London Olympia this Thursday, October 23, and on Saturday, October 25th. Of course, we've also got the International Elgg Conference on December 1st in Brighton.
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It has been a busy few weeks. Those of you who have been following the cut and thrust of development and tracking SVN will have noticed a fair few extra features and functionality and a lot of core code changes - extra tools, new activity viewing code, many speed improvements, a central entity icon API, bug fixes etc.
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Reposted from Dave's personal blog
 Some of the Elgg team were down in Brighton consulting at the University of Brighton to work out a strategy for migrating their 50,000 user, classic Elgg install, to the new Elgg code base. We also discussed some cool custom developments.
We had the Brighton Elgg meet, where we met some cool people doing interesting work, some with Elgg. Ben fell in love with Brighton and both he and Marcus were digging this co-working space. I have to admit, it does have a decent tech scene compared to most parts of the UK.
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 We are pleased to announce that this year's Elgg conference will take place on Dec 1st in Brighton, England. As some followers of Elgg will know, we had to postpone this event earlier in the year due to some unforeseen circumstances.
We are still working on a schedule for the day but wanted to let those interested know the date as soon as possible in order for it to be marked into their diaries.
It will follow our usual format: presentations, demonstrations and then a panel Q&A to wrap things up before heading to a venue in the town for some beer and food.
If there is enough interest, we might look to hold a code-a-thon the following day.
If you would like to attend this year's event, please head over to the event page and register.
If you are using Elgg and would like to showcase your work in one of the demonstration slots, please get in touch: info@elgg.com.
We look forward to seeing some of you there.
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We're really pleased with the growth in the Elgg Community in the short time it's been online. It's great to see so many people discussing issues, uploading plugins and trying out the system. Perhaps best of all, an array of locale-specific groups has sprung up and are providing translations, proving that Elgg use is worldwide.
A couple of people have mentioned that it looks significantly different to the core Elgg install, and that therefore it must be running on a hacked version of Elgg. This is not the case: the Elgg Community runs on a clean version of the latest codebase in our Subversion repository.
So how did we do it?
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