Group: GNU Social

Revision as of 18:40, 3 March 2010

This is the development, work-in-progress spec/ideas space for GNU Social, otherwise known as Daisychain.

Privacy- users should be in control of their own data
Distributed- anyone can set up their own server to become part of the network
Portability- software should run on the widest array of hosts possible
Simplicity- simple to set up; a simple base installation to serve as a platform for a wide array of extensions
Extensibility- easy to implement and distribute new functionality
Freedom (of course)

XMPP
- "Message oriented middleware" -- should be useful for inter-server communication
- Need to include an XMPP server in base install?
  - Is it possible to route what we need through an arbitrary XMPP server?
FoAF + SSL?
PHP for the front-end implementation language (portability; pretty much all hosting companies support it)
- Back-end presents an issue; should be easy to install even on a third party host, if possible.
Base system
- Contacts + plugin API
- Basic (removable) apps installed by default (messaging, etc.)
Something on par with Facebook's news feed (which has recently been patented...)?
How to authenticate users from remote servers?
- OpenID?
- Alternatives?

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 ** "Message oriented middleware" -- should be useful for inter-server communication
 ** Need to include an XMPP server in base install?
+*** Is it possible to route what we need through an arbitrary XMPP server?
 * [http://www.foaf-project.org/ FoAF + SSL?]
 * PHP for the front-end implementation language (portability; pretty much all hosting companies support it)