You should not worry about 1.7

This look like a great tool for elgg. I have not tried it, but based on the screenshots it looks like this could be very helpful for several networks.

As for me, I think it is amazing. I've been working for so many months in a Learning Solution product based on elgg and this is just what I needed.

Rodolfo Hernandez

Arvixe/Elgg Community Liaison

For me I think the killer addition to babelroom would be a whiteboard...

Thanks for a the replies and testing -- I'm very impressed with the quality and level of engagement here.

To answer last item first:

We've identified a need for "plugins" in our dashboard so the dashboard could then be customized with say, a whiteboard or an embedded youtube video (with synchronized playback), a browser or a tick-tac-toe game etc. I'd like to build a whiteboard (possibly using this: http://raphaeljs.com/) but as one of these optional plugins. So then any front-end developer can take a library, add a bit of js glue and make a plugin. (a plugin within a plugin no less).

There are so many of these javascript/html libraries and tools out there - it would be great if adding a little glue would allow any of them to be embeddable and shared in a virtual room.

I'd like to answer the other points raised by referring to my response on this thread (I hope it's kosher to do that here)

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/babelroom/6zZszCFgVEA/lgAVcGKcpJAJ

Thanks again!

-J