> Profile pages with contact information and whether or not people can > come > > crash at your house - that's all it needs to start. Shouldn't take > > more than a weekend to make. Can we raise $500-1K to get it built?
We should consider not reinventing the wheel. There are several options already available for something like this, and our use/advocacy for them could significantly benefit their projects. If we want a distributed social networking service, we obviously have Diaspora. However, before Diaspora, there already existed several efforts. The best one (in my opinion) is Friendica (formally Friendika), which has a surprising number of features considering nobody seems to know about it. This would also federate with MediaGoblin, a new federated media sharing software. Another is the AppleSeed project, which is apparently no longer developed but the code is still there (https://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed). If someone wanted to pick up Appleseed, it's quite far along, and if I remember correctly also has very clean code. I think socialP2P is also abandoned (http://gitorious.org/social-p2p/core) and never made it nearly as far along, but they had a very interesting concept. If we don't want federation, there are tons of options. However, before we go put effort into making *yet another* piece of social software, we need to consider that using an existing piece of software could be beneficial for both the free culture community the entire open web. Think of what having a major Friendica node would do. -Max _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freeculture.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss FAQ: http://wiki.freeculture.org/Fc-discuss
