GroupJive Release Candidate (... coming soon).
Development of GroupJive 1.6 stable will arrive (someday soon).
The community has requested additional features and the GroupJive team has responded by taking the most highly requested features currently in the Forums and integrating them *now* before releasing GroupJive this month.
The addition of these features has pushed back our release date however, these items were important to you and therefore they've become important to us.
Download the GroupJive BETA today and test with EventList and FireBoard integration. Download at >>>
NOTE: Please read the readme.txt and readme_eventlist.txt very thoroughly!!
It's getting close everyone!!! 
*** Just so you don't think we've forgotten about releasing the GroupJive social networking component... Here is a list of the upcoming features you will see this month in GroupJive
GroupJive Feature List ( the stuff your users can play with)
Groups
- Registered Users can create their own Groups
- Group members can invite other people...(invites can be
.....sent to both registered users and people not yet joined to
.....the web site)
- Visitor/non-members able to contact Moderators/GroupOwner
....without entering Groups. (Necessary to communicate to
....Private Groups)
....(new - will be in final release)
- The ability to create 3 types of Groups
- - Open to all
- - Approval to join (requires Moderator approval to allow join)
- - Invite to join (requires invitation from a group member)
- Assign an Logo Image to a Group
- Display multiple functions inside Groups (group view)
- - Moderator Functions
- - Group Functions
- - Latest Bulletins
- - Latest Forum Posts
- Groups can be made Private depending on Group type
- Group content can be publicly viewable or viewable only
.... to the Group Members
- Moderation
- - Invite group members
- - Activate / Inactivate group members
- - The ability to choose between RealNames -OR- UserNames
....in working with Group Members on your site (admins choice)
.... (new - will be in final release)
- - Edit Group details
- - Email all group members (new - will be in final release)
- - Edit Bulletin / Delete Bulletin
- - Transfer Group to new Owner/Moderator
- - Delete Group
Bulletins
- Create Bulletin Board messages inside Group
- Edit / Delete Bulletins
- Bulletin Administration
- Limit Bulletin create to Group Moderators only
- Filter number of Bulletins displayed on pages (front-end user experience)
Events (new)
- Integration with EventList event component (Schlu.net)
** Event posts only viewable through the GroupJive group
** Event posts "not" viewable via EventList interface
Forums (new)
- Integration with FireBoard forum component (BestOfJoomla)
** Forum posts only viewable through the GroupJive group
** Forum posts "not" viewable via FireBoard interface
Comments (new - will be in final release)
- Integration with JomComment component (Azrul)
** Comment bulletin posts inside GroupJive groups
** Comments viewable only from inside the Group
GroupJive Administration ( admin panel - backend )
- Global Settings
- Receive notifications upon creation of Groups
- Users identified by Real Names or Usernames (front-end user experience)
- Custom Avatar Image for GroupJive users (if users has not uploaded their own)
- Use Email or PMS for user notifications
- Define Default Group Logos that identify with your website
- Set Group Logo size (in pixels) for resizing image uploads from front-end
- Filter number of Groups and Users displayed on pages (front-end user experience)
- Template (select your preferred design for GroupJive
- Front End (user experience)
- Determine if users can create their own Groups
- Allow Group Creation only upon Admin approval
- Allow users to send invitations to join Groups
- Setup notifications to users when - (new members join) - (new bulletins posted)
- Misc ...
- Hide Groups from non-members
- Date format: set time and date format for display in GroupJive
- Categories Manager
- Create multiple Group categories
- Filter the types of Groups that can be created inside a category
- Assign Administrators to Categories
- Assign Logo Images to a Categories
- Groups Manager
- Assign Groups to parent categories
- Define Group Types (Open, Approval, Invite)
- Name Groups and create Group Descriptions
- Assign Administrators to Groups
- Assign Logo Images to a Groups
- Members Manager (new)
- Manager Members from admin panel
- add members to Groups
- work with multiple Group Members simultaneously:
- - add multiple members to additional Groups
- - remove multiple memebers from Groups
- search Group Members by username (filter)
- select individual Groups to edit (drop-down Groups menu)
- A Pure CSS Template for GroupJive (from which we hope to see the community Edit/improve/create new and better CSS Templates (and give them back to the GroupJive community) (new - will be in final release)
- Removal of all remaining hard coded language strings WITH substitution of language constants for internationalization.
- Improved administration interface (hopefully making GJ easier for new users) (new - will be in final release)
** Numerous usability enhancements (new)
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GroupJive Features 
