To expand on what Dan has said, it isn't a goal of shindig to be an open source social networking site implementation. We'll provide very basic, primitive reference data to satisfy the APIs, but any real production implementation will need to hook their own existing site up to the various gadgets and open social interfaces that we have implemented.
~Kevin On Jan 22, 2008 7:18 AM, Dan Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > The way I've been describing Shindig is that it is growing into the > reference implementation for gadgets.* and opensocial.*, in addition to > having infrastructure pieces that make supporting those from a > "container"-perspective easy (e.g. things like the Gadget Server). This > will > be better codified in a proposed contributor's guide that John H. and I > are > working on and will send to this list for review. > > To your question about the social functionality, there is actually already > OpenSocial reference JS files in Shindig: > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/shindig/trunk/features/opensocial-reference/ > > If you have your own Shindig running, make sure you've edited your > sample-container.html file to point NOT at localhost, but rather at your > own > domain, and then simply navigate to the sample-container.html and you'll > be > able to see the a social gadget in action, as well as modify it's state. > The > sample container isn't as well documented as it should be, so ask your > questions here in the meantime. > > Cheers, > -Dan > > > On Jan 22, 2008 5:48 AM, Vincent Demay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > First of all congrats for all the work you already did on shindig. This > > project is really interesting for me. > > > > I have some questions about your roadmap in order to better understand > > limits of the project: For now Shindig does not deal social aspect > > (friends, user, events), do you plan to integrate those aspects and if > > yes, what will be the bounds of the social aspect (model, persistence, > > etc...). > > > > Thanks in advance for your response. > > > > Cheers > > > > -- > > Vincent Demay > > >
