i was thinging in a wedget for the users which they can toke it and put it outsite elgg, like in thier blogs and websites, showing thier friend , profile data, groups members, latest discussions ..etc.

i think this kind of stuff done by the APIs and javascript codes, i hope to see that kind of plugins soon.

I never noticed this "Bridging" post before... ;-)  http://elggucational.ensci.us/ OR http://connectmyschool.com/ is where the remnants of my research notes for bridging Elgg<->Elgg lies in state. I seem to have lost almost all my notes (but not my precious *code) from since late 2008, when I had started working with XMLRPC to make the bridges. My main focus then was to tunnel into Moodles WebServices (They were then planning that feature for their Vers 2.0).

But alas... there's only 24 hours in a day x 7 days and over the months... I got too involved with so many other projects and TCB.. though can still have two Elgg sites talk to each other using XMPLRPC calls, but that is where I left my develepment code.. while I had to just move on...

Supporting the theme.

One of ideas I tought some time ago is running Elgg in "slave" mode to existing scripts.

Here are my reasons:
1) Consider forums, like phpbb. They exist long time and users often have forum script running with significant customer base. Breaking everything and installing elgg instead looks very aggressive move, as customers may just leave the site. But making an addition, allowing forum-enabled site gradually evolve to social network - may look attractive. This requires some items Casey mentioned: login bridge, profile sync, css / look harmonization. We made experiment with phpbb, but did not go further - just did not found customer :).
2) Similar approach - but for communities. Often businesses have already some customer base (like user groups or so) and may seem valuable to add to customer site community features. Elgg could serve here preferct too. Again - need login/profile integration, look and feel harmonization.

Both theese cases do not have anything deeply technical - that just marketing considerations but I believe such approaches could improve elgg visibility and (i'd say) penetration to existing markets.

Hello

It sound very nice, although i see that practically speaking, these bridges are so hard to maintain, that even if there is a bridge at a certain point, it breaks with each new release on each application.

I have surrendered this point of view, after all the trying. I'm thinking its better to develop plugins so that Elgg has similar functionality to the other apps. After all, plugins are extremely flexible. For example Vazco presented his Forum plugin, which i think tackles most of the Forum necessities.

One of the things that would be great to have in Elgg but have no time to implement, is the option for courses.

With Love,
Uddhava dāsa

Uddhava, I agree with you that bridging is usually very hard. It's possible only when there is an API that is not changing in the application you're bridging to (eg. Facebook, most of Google's API's).

Btw, we were working on courses and e-learning plugin on Elggdev, though it's development was halted when funder decided he no longer needs it. As this is a quite complex functionality, we can't launch it as other Elggdev plugins. If we find a sponsor, I would be glad to release the plugin either for free or as a low cost version on Elggdev ( which would lower the costs for a sponsor )

Dear Vazco,

Ah sounds cool, do you have a working demo?

With Love,
Uddhava dāsa

hi everyone, thanks for making this group

I have an idea : what about integrating EyeOs http://eyeos.org into Elgg

it's a cloud operating system with office like app ( wordprocessor , spreadsheet ..) and lot more 

I don't know if it is possible but it would be wonderfull , having  editors for files inside elgg

Uddhava, I have only a few modules which are not functional yet and tools that allow to create some relationships that can be used in e-learning. There is no running demo yet.

I got message from Richard Noble and one more person, they would be interrested in such module as well. We may create a specification that would suit everyone more or less and lower the development costs this way. Later, the plugin can be personalized either individually or I can personalize it. I created a separate page for the idea of this plugin here.