Hi Everyone, Esprit is one of the few open sourced SNS built in php. It uses Shindig as its open social container. Esprit provides a very good basic SNS on which you can build your own social networking website. It is licensed under Apache License 2.0. Esprit is simple and easy to install, and also contains the essential features of a SNS which are as follows:
· Manage online user profile. · Making Friends and online social network for personal and professional reasons. · Uploading photos and making online Photo Albums. · Communication with friends through public messages like scrapes and private messages like email. · Provides Shindig OpenSocial container for application developers to integrate their applications with Esprit. While you can use esprit as a base for your social networking site, it is also reference implementation for the Shindig framework in PHP. For all the details of the features, usage, installation and technical details please visit http://code.google.com/p/esprit. Formal discussion forum for esprit is http://groups.google.com/group/Espritgroup Our blog is at http://espritsns.blogspot.com/ We have started recently and currently at 0.9 beta. Our short term roadmap is laid out in terms of features and we are working on crystallizing our long term roadmap. We will work on the schedule soon. Sincerely looking forward for your comments/suggestions .. Regards, Astha Bhatnagar
