Mahara 1.0 Released

"Mahara 1.0.0 (Stable) by Mahara - Tue, Apr 1st 2008 22:35 PDT

About: Mahara is fully featured electronic portfolio, weblog, resume builder, and social networking system for connecting users and creating online communities.

Changes: Devolved administration allows each institution to have their own administrators, leaving the site admin free to run the site. Group forums allow group members to interact and discuss with each other. The social networking side has been improved; it's now easier to find friends and groups, and all users have improved profile pages. Usability has been greatly improved throughout the system. There have been many smaller bugfixes and improvements. "

Mahara can be visited and demoed at http://www.mahara.org/ and the community is online at #mahara on irc.freenode.net

Think Open recently wrote a single sign on plug-in for Drupal users to browse seamlessly to a Mahara server. User data is pulled from Drupal and Mahara logs the user in auto-magically. Think Open is awaiting a Drupal CVS account, and soon the module will be uploaded to http://www.drual.org/