The third development cycle has just been published. This time the additions are more visible than last time.

We’ve managed to open a few Villages that you can join. When you look at the menu on the left you’ll see a new menu item called ‘Villages’. Of course the layout of these Villages is still a bit primitive, and there are no projects, steps and tasks available.

What you can do:
• Join a Village
• See the other subscribers (that will be ‘Neighbours’ soon)
• Invite others to join the same village
• Subscribe to village content
• Facilitators can send an email to the Neighbours of the village (mailinglist)

What else has changed?
- In a user profile you can also see the latest activities of this person. Have a look at Rauls profile, for example and click ‘Latest activity’.
- Taxonomy images have been introduced. When a message is linked to a country, the geographical image of this country is also shown. The same works for the Millennium Development Goals. Have a look at one of the Villages to see this in action!
- We wanted to show external information sources too, but unfortunately haven’t managed to realize that in this iteration. We’re currently looking into the use of Yahoo pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com), to see if that would be useful.

More tech stuff… (remember the ‘house building’ story of last time?)
We have worked on the infrastructure too, so that we can easily create an extra virtual "sandbox". If you're interested in helping out with Drupal development, we can now quickly set up a subdomain for you, where you can develop and test things. And if you're familiar with CVS for version control, you can also track changes, and use your own computer for development until you're ready to test things on our server.

Next development cycle
We’ve come to an agreement with the makers of MothersClick.com, which is a platform working with a large number of groups, based on Drupal. The development of the new NABUUR site could be based on the work their platform. The benefit of this approach is that the basis of the site would already be ‘tried and tested’. The coming two weeks will mainly be used to get this up and running and to see what would need to be developed specifically for NABUUR 2.0.

Stay tuned for more...

Wondering what this site is about? You can read that here: http://demo.nabuurtest.com/en/content/take-a-peek