Terry Wassall :: Blog :: Business as usual!

Well! What a turn up! As of today we learn that TIG will not be taking over Eduspaces and it will not become EducatorCentral. We will remain Eduspaces and we are now going to be looked after 'for the foreseeable future' by the Eduspaces Team. I hope we will be able to know who this is (Misja!?) but I would like to say a big thank you. This is the best possible outcome and one, I must admit, I did not foresee. Just goes to show that the 'foreseeable future' is no great guide to the future as it happens. I'd love to know the whole story. Is it just an insurmountable legal issue or did TIG decide them and us might just not be a marriage made in heaven? Did the old team get a little nostalgic for such a formative part of their history and culture? As I have posted elsewhere (probably in an Eduspaces forum so lost for ever?) I think it is hard to underestimate how important Eduspaces (Elgg.net as was) was for the growth of interest in Elgg as an OS application and, to some extent, a key factor in the subsequent careers of the founders and some, at least, early users. And especially important I think is that it will remain as an excellent example of Elgg in use.

I wonder if the Presentation tool will be reinstated? Will Eduspaces be upgraded to the new Elgg 1.0? Or perhaps it will continue as an exemplary example of Elgg Classic?

The experience of the closure, TIG migration, and back to Eduspaces has not been entirely painless or without gains either. I now know how to install and run Wordpress and this in turn has given me the (probably misplaced) confidence to install and run Elgg for a family social network. Every problem is an opportunity! Of course. And every opportunity is a problem.