Important Agora Migrator: Looking for Agora users who want to migrate their data to Kunena 1.6

We have been developing a migration framework component for a while now, but have never really put much time or effort into it, as migrations between forums are really not our core business. We want to build and maintain a good forum/discussion/community communication engine and we focus on that a lot.

With Kunena 1.6.1 and 1.5.13 about to roll, new versions of our plugins and modules ready for delivery and the recent events around the Agora Open Source community - that has been cutoff by a poorly executed transition to a fully commercial only product - we are accelerating our development and testing for this data migration component.

We have a preliminary version of an Agora converter (other like SMF, phpBB, ccBoard ... too) and we are looking for site admins that would want to work with us directly in converting their Agora forums, all the categories, forums, messages, images and attachments to Kunena 1.6+.

If you run an existing Agora forum with at least a few thousand messages and users, we would welcome you to join in and test our migration component. We can provide a sandbox if needed to test the migration and not impact your production sites. Once you are satisfied, the migration could be performed on the live production site and the tested migrator will get released to the entire Kunena community.

So if you are looking for a way out, are willing to work with us, we would welcome your help in maturing our data migration framework.

Please reply to this thread if you are interested.

Talk about timing. I just started looking at Kunena to replace agora which I updated to 3.0.137 and then found out about the commercialization. I came on this website to find out if there was a converter. I only have 118 users and 1067 posts but would volunteer for use at any time. Thanks for the offer to the Agora community.

I used the 1.5 to agora method then to 1.6 and seem to work well on two sites. However on one of the sites my Kenuna main component screen times out. But I can select any of the submenus in the back end for kenuna and they show up fine. Probably the wrong place to post this but I'm willing to put my two cents in.

kaj41354 wrote: Talk about timing. I just started looking at Kunena to replace agora which I updated to 3.0.137 and then found out about the commercialization. I came on this website to find out if there was a converter. I only have 118 users and 1067 posts but would volunteer for use at any time. Thanks for the offer to the Agora community.

Would it be possible to the a backup (best Akeeba) of your site, that we can install on a sandbox (can give you access to that too). That way we can test the migration and run the two components sided by side for verification purposes. Once you like what you see, you can then apply the migrator to your live site.

If the backup (again Akeeba preferred) is possible, please reset the super admin password before the backup to something you can share with us (you can change it back right after the backup is complete). That way we can install the backup (restore) on a test server and take it from there.

Thx!

Yes - I will do that this weekend. Thanks for your assistance - Please send me a PM to let me know what email to send it to

We are also interested in helping with testing the migration tool. We have about 375 users and just shy of 3,000 posts.