nabuur.com has moved to a new server

Today nabuur.com moved to a new server. As Jennifer wrote in her announcement: we took the opportunity to clean up some content. This serves two purposes:

• Volunteers will more easily find villages that are active.
• The website should work faster because there is less content to filter through.

If you're reading this message as a NABUUR volunteer or local representative, you hopefully find all your content still ok. We did our best to make sure all active villages and all neighbours are still available. (We have a backup copy of all previous content, so if you do miss something: get in touch!)

• The number of villages has been reduced from 235 to 93, and the villages that started but never finished their registration process have been removed too.
• The number of groups has been reduced (less dramatically).
• All user accounts have been moved to the new site. (We'll clean up unused accounts later on)
• We removed a few blocks of "related content" from various pages, to speed up page delivery: "neighbours who could help", "organisations of interest", and "similar villages".
• We've temporarily switched off Google Adwords, so there are less visitors to the site at the same time.

We also did house-keeping on some of the services we use to keep the organisation running:

• The documents archive is getting organised (on Google Docs) and has a public section that you can reach via https://bit.ly/nabuur-docs The meeting notes of our community chat sessions are on there.
• We also created a Google Calendar to share important events, such as upcoming community chats, the server move, and so on. If you're using an online calendar yourself, you can add our events to it, via https://bit.ly/nabuur-calendar
• We used to have a special site with documentation for developers. We've retrieved all the information from that site, and are going to publish that via for instance https://github.com/nabuur/nabuur-d5
• We have a (new) public tracker to share what we're working on: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/projects/292585

All in all, we're happy with the results so far, and are looking forward to seeing the site run with its normal traffic. We'll continue to work on performance improvements and clean-up in the coming weeks.