> -----Original Message----- > From: Kieren Diment [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:00 AM > To: The elegant MVC web framework > Subject: [Catalyst] Google Summer of Code > > So, it's that time again. > > I had a thought about this. I quite like some things about > facebook. It's a useful way for me to be able to communicate with > people I've known since before I left school. But there are two > things that really irritate me about it, these are: > > * Closed single platform with one vendor in control of my data > * They make me visit their website, and have pretty piss poor support > for rss. > > Sooo, I thought that it would be interesting to produce a Simple > Social Network Comminication Protocol. Essentially gluing existing > stuff together like OpenID, FOAF, Various levels of access control, > REST and the like to produce a distributed social networking system. > That is a web or web-service server to provide a social network for a > group, but that can also communicate with other SSNCP servers to > provide a distributed social network system. > > So, I reckon this would be a two year process. Year one would be > writing the spec and getting the bits and pieces gathered together > and functioning properly on the workshop floor. Year two would > involve lots of welding, duct tape and hot glue to get the package > together. In year one, the benifit for catalyst is that lots of our > bits and pieces get a nice oil and polish. In year two we get a > product with a lot of potential to be influential on the applications > scene (rather than the architecture scene). > > Any students out there who are up for applying for this?
I'm far from being a student, so I couldn't participate via SOC, but I did start to write an all-encompassing library to access Google's GData API a while back for a social networking site that I wanted to launch. I didn't get very far into the project before life took over, but I'd enjoy getting involved in something like that again. Add me to your list of interested folks. v/r -matt pitts _______________________________________________ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/