If you would like to be a sponsored provider, there will now be a fee that you may "pay" in your ElggX points.
You can earn these points for valuable contributions (we moderate), or you can simply buy them. Please let us know if you have any questions.
Point fees not set yet. Highest 5 bidders will get placement and we will cycle through weekly.
Feedback appreciated.
Our video tutorial series is now live: http://www.elggexchange.com/videos
What would you like us to do next?
Comments welcome!
@izap Yes, quality plugins is our goal - so we can't wait to see what you deliver!
Only the best plugins and themes will hosted here.
The EX Community will know that anything they download here is guaranteed quality (the general community requires too much time is spent sorting through poorly coded or outdated plugins, which often conflict with each other.
If we are unfamiliar with a plugin (or theme), we always test it out to ensure that our standards are met.
Furthermore, our plugins area has improved functionality by allowing the following:
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users can rate a plugin
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filter enhancements: have you ever tried to find a great plugin by sorting it by number of downloads, only to find that the majority of those plugins with the most downloads (most popular) are outdated? We fixed that problem with our filter algorithm -- give it a try.
- Users can vote for a plugin (heat it up or cool it down) so the highest quality plugins and themes are always on the first page.
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we count actual downloads as opposed to page views, which will be astronger signal of quality.
- Plugin updates do not create a new page for that plugin version(resulting in 5 pages for 1 plugin, each with its own fixes, updates and comments. Such fragmentation in the documentation for a plugin is more time consuming for both the user and developer and causes confusion among eager downloaders. Everything for a plugin will now be contained on the same page.
We are applying our point system to encourage this activity: users who submit a plugin will get 100 points for uploading a (approved) plugin and 10 points for every positive vote. Therefore users who upload the best plugins are *very* quickly rewarded (1000 downloads @ 100 points each will earn 100,000 points!).
Similarly, users who upload "crap" plugins and themes can actually lose points for negative votes (if the plugin is even approved by our team).
While we value the individual, we believe it is more important to provide value to the community as a whole. We hope you feel the same way about our business model but we welcome constructive criticism, which we will take very seriously (we personally respond to all the feedback we receive via our blue feedback button on the left side) and make any logical adjustments that did not occur to us (no one is perfect!) - remember, we are still pre-beta :)
We are very close to implementing our point redemption system which, among other things, will require users to maintain a certain level of points to engage in our "premium" activities - so if you are still below 1000 points, I highly suggest engaging the community for 10 minutes in order to ensure that no limits will be placed on your account when this system is put into place in 2010. Do not misunderstand our reasoning for this - read the following:
WE WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR ON OUR "PREMIUM" CONTENT RESTRICTIONS:
We feel very strongly about preserving the Open Source spirit of elgg, and we do not want our efforts to commercialize elgg to undermine our passion for free knowledge and software. Please keep this in mind when you read the following bullet points:
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Uers who contribute to the elgg community with their comments and other valuable suggestions will soon be able to "purchase" all of our "premium" services with their points.
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We will never ask users to pay for **our** plugins. We do not accept payments of any kind; all we ask is for you to "pay it forward" and help out the people the help you.
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On a similar note, we also feel very strongly about the commercial potential of elgg and feel that keeping everything free will only hurt the user in the end with lower quality plugins, themes and less people willing to share their work.
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In order for Elgg to succeed in this competitive industry, commercialization is not an option. We allow all our providers to sell their plugins and themes on our marketplace, with one catch: in order to upload a plugin or theme for monetary gain, you must "spend" a proportional value of your points (therefore we are making a compromise - the provider earns money and the community benefits from the help that developers provide in order to earn those points.
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However, we do understand that not every provider has the time or passion for such things, and allow monetary payments for "premium" services (each premium service will have a small fee and the revenue this produces will go towards our "Custom Plugin Development Fund," which will allow users to get the plugin they would like without having to pay for it!
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Users will be able to suggest new plugins and vote for other people's plugin ideas. We will allow developers to bid on those plugins and they will be paid for by the developers who choose to share their money rather than intellectual knowledge.
We think this is an elegant solution that will satisfy both "Open Source" fanatics and developers who feel that Elgg needs to embrace a more commercial business model in which developers get paid for their hard work.
We hope you agree and look forward to your feedback!
All the best,
Shane
We now have the ability to share plugins!
Upload your favorites! Full Feature list will be detailed as soon as we add the ability to buy and sell - just a few more days!
We just noticed that all of you who used the tell-a- friend feature were not rewarded for doing so - the rewards stayed pending since two weeks ago. So if any of you notice a few thousand extra points, you know why :) Thanks for the support!
I have been getting an increasing number of confused emails about a new website called elggjobs.com.
The developers of this site (elgg.in, other known as webcubes, created by "Lovegin John," although he goes by other aliases) have made it their mission to rip off every idea we have to the point where their site is actually confused with elggexchange.com -- THIS IS NOT THE CASE.
I am by no means discouraging anyone from participating in their site, but I believe what they are doing is unethical, unoriginal, and goes against everything that elgg exchange is about -- collaborating on original ideas. Elgg Expertise involves originality, not mimicry.
With that said, we feel that we (elggexchange.com) should to be #1 result for the query "elgg jobs" on google (http://www.google.com/search?q=elgg+jobs&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGGL_en___US343) -- if you guys agree, click the up arrow and promote us to #1!
Just be careful to vote for the listing with the URL ELGGEXCHANGE.COM, as ELGGJOBS.COM's site description can easily be confused with ours -- who would have thought ;)
P.S. In order to do this, you need to join google social search: http://www.google.com/experimental/
Hey All,
There are some great discussions going on with some really insightful info being shared - join in the elgg fun! http://www.elggexchange.com/pg/groups/world/?filter=active
Elgg Plugins & Themes
Thursday, November 26, 2009 6:54
Posted in category review
Elgg is a Curverider open source project that aims to provide an elegant and powerful CMS which allows you to create a kind of online community. What’s interesting of Elgg features? Elgg look simple but very interseting, I think you can easily understand the menus provided by Elgg.
Anyway, If you are interseting with Elgg..you can check it out for Elgg Jobs too in www.elggexchange.com, you can custom Elgg Plugins & Themes , hosting plans, and many more… I promise you can moderated marketplace where you can easily find the highest quality plugins and themes.
Elgg.in is a premium elgg service provider located in India. They do elgg plugin development, customization, elgg consultation, templates, widgets and themes development and elgg hosting. It runs on Apache, PHP and MySQL – the same open source platform that the majority of web applications are written in. Elgg is compatible with enterprise technologies like the Zend Platform and any server environment that can run the Apache web server.
Elgg supports technologies like OpenDD, OpenID and OpenSocial, and they are directly involved in community efforts to push the envelope when it comes to data portability, federation and the user experience. Elgg is a great way to future-proof your social applications.
http://hzh3.com/2009/11/26/elgg-plugins-themes/
