I have spent time playing around with gnusocial.me today. I like what I see so far. More work seems to be needed, but Elgg could make for a good start. I also have two questions:
1. Plugins appear to be licensed separately. Is there a way to ensure that Elgg plugins will only be free software? Since GNU Social is official GNU software it seems important not to use other software that might recommend non-free software (like how Firefox does through non-free plugins, hence the need for Icecat.) 2. I thought that one of the reasons for creating something from scratch was so that the FSF could hold the copyright (see "Why not use existing free software social networking code?" at [1].) If Elgg is used it seems that the FSF would not hold the copyright on the entire thing? [1] http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:GNU_Social
