GCconnex & How to Install

This project is forked from Elgg^[1](#fn1) by the Federal Government of Canada. This branch contains the main version of Elgg for 1.12 which is currently in development for future launch of the new GCconnex.

All dependencies is included in this branch for Elgg v1.12, please note that some modules are included as submodules², you may need to pull from submodule.

Mod list

(helpful for testing / development)

• Elgg Developer Tools
• Diagnostics
• Log Browser
• Login As
• CSV User Import
• Bulk User Admin

(for the site itself)

• Notifications
• HTML Email Handler
• Advanced Notifications
• Notification Email Messages --> upgrade work in progress
• Log Rotate
• Garbage Collector
• HTMLawed
• Tidypics Photo Gallery
• Groups
• Group Tools
• Group Operators
• AU Sub-Groups
• Group Deletion
• Blog
• Blog Tools
• Bookmarks
• User Dashboard
• Members
• hypeFramework --> upgrade work in progress
• hypeForum --> upgrade work in progress
• Search
• Sphinx Search (needs sphinx search service running to connect to if you want to use it)
• Site Pages
• File
• File Tools
• Domain Manager
• GC Registration
• Invite Friends
• Friend request
• Likes
• Messages
• Notifications
• Profile
• Tasks Fx
• The Wire
• TheWire Tools
• Toggle Language
• User Validation by Email
• Unvalidatedemailchange
• Zaudio
• GC_Help
• Custom index widgets
• Event Calendar
• Pages
• Blueprint 2020 Ideas
• GC Profile Picture Badges
• Translation Editor
• Advanced Notifications
• Polls
• Widget Manager
• Widget Manager Accessibility Patch
• Module dump
• Extended Profile
• CKEditor
• Department Binning
• GoC - WET 4 Elgg Theme
• Rename Friends

_{1: Elgg is an open source framework for social networking and collaboration, for more information about Elgg visit http://elgg.org/ or see the original Elgg README below.}

_{2: WET4 is currently in development to comply with the standards of UX within the Government}

GCconnex branches explained

1.* - Older version of Elgg codebase

GCconnex - Codebase for main production copy of GCconnex, any changes made or additional functionality that is developed will be merged into this branch.

Staging - Pre release version used by TBS-SCT developers for development and testing

devel-* - Branches used by TBS-SCT developers

gcconnex-elgg1.8 - Old GCconnex version code using Elgg v1.8

Elgg README

Elgg Copyright (c) 2008-2015, see COPYRIGHT.txt

See CONTRIBUTORS.txt for development credits.

Elgg is managed by the Elgg Foundation, a nonprofit organization that was founded to govern, protect, and promote the Elgg open source social network engine. The Foundation aims to provide a stable, commercially and individually independent organization that operates in the best interest of Elgg as an open source project.

The project site can be found at http://elgg.org/

The Elgg project was started in 2004 by: Ben Werdmuller <[email protected], http://benwerd.com> and Dave Tosh [email protected]

Elgg is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) License. See LICENSE.txt in the root of the package you downloaded.

For installation instructions, see INSTALL.txt.

For upgrade instructions, see UPGRADE.txt.