Elgg 1.0 Due August 18th

Elgg one of the Social Networking platforms I've been watching is due to be released august 18th. Elgg is one of the few free / open source options out there for doing a social networking site and it promises to offer a much improved interface and a very nice API for developing plugins and widgets for new types of user generated content. The 18th will be the first day that the new code is available to download, and I expect that lots of user made plugins and mods will follow. There's still a lot of features lacking, but I think the base has been laid down with this new version is pretty strong and it promises to be a good platform to build on. Plus it's free. :) I'll post my impressions of the API once the 18th rolls around.