Hello community, I am interested in doing this project as I have been posting to the list during past months.
This is the project description mentioned in [1]. Enable Twitter-like Activities (aka status messages) with following, followers, optional 140-character text limit and other Twitter features as time allows. This could be done via new table Followers, which allows users to follow each other, a new Manager for querying this table, and which stores Activity as blog entries but using a different category scheme so that they can be omitted from standard blog feeds. Provide a theme and blog template macros for updating status and for displaying your Activities, Friends Activities, All Activities and combinations of those. This is similar to what was suggested in [2]. But a major part missing. Implementing Open Social API. I agree with the description about having the Twitter-like activities, followers, status updates, implementing followers table, manager for querying the table and storing the activities. This all can be done extending existing Roller code base. But the final idea of friends and friends activities need some Open Social features(In which case Shindig can be used). My question is: will it be feasible to consider 'followers' as 'friends' and implement it using the followers table or will it require to integrate the whole open social features (Person, Activities, Messages)? I am really interested in implementing this feature to Roller and would like to take GSoC as the opportunity to work on it. Please be kind enough to give me your suggestions, thoughts and any comments regarding this. Also I would like to know if there is anyone interested in mentoring this project. I am sure that the Roller community will help me in successfully completing this project. Thanks, Umashanthi --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Undergraduate, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-1861 [2] http://wiki.apache.org/general/SummerOfCode2009#roller
