On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Umashanthi Pavalanathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > First of all, I would like to introduce myself to the community. I am > Umashanthi, a Computer Science and Engineering undergraduate, who is > passionate about open source development, especially the Apache way. I found > the PhotArk project interesting because of my interest in web application > development. > > While exploring the PhotArk application I felt that adding social features > to PhotArk would be ideal to cater for users who require such features and > make the application more popular. As you all know currently the web is > becoming more social and I feel adding OpenSocial features to PhotArk will > make it more suitable for users. For those who are new to OpenSocial [1]- > [3] , provide the basic details. In simple words, opensocial is about > relationships(friends, followers etc), activities(adding new albums, tagging > etc) and appdata( application data), like the features available in social > networking sites. Making PhotArk fully social compatible might be a lengthy > process. But in my opinion we can start with basic features and then can > build upon it. > > This is my idea and I would like to know your valuable suggestions. If > required, I can do some initial research regarding this. > > Looking forward to hear your valuable thoughts.. > > [1] http://www.opensocial.org/ > [2] http://wiki.opensocial.org/index.php?title=Main_Page > [3] https://sites.google.com/a/opensocial.org/opensocial/Home >
Umashanthi, welcome to PhotArk These sounds like good ideas, and something I always had on the back of my mind. We have been working on a new REST api a branch, and maybe we could start prototyping some OpenSocial integration on top of that. Your help and contributions would be appreciated. BTW, we have started discussion on the project roadmap, and I have added this as an item to the roadmap. -- Luciano Resende http://people.apache.org/~lresende http://twitter.com/lresende1975 http://lresende.blogspot.com/
