On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Luciano Resende <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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.


Glad to hear...


> 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.
>

I will start by looking at the REST api branch and the code base.


>
> BTW, we have started discussion on the project roadmap, and I have
> added this as an item to the roadmap.
>

Cool! I will look into it & share my thoughts as well.

Thank you for your encouraging words and response.

Thanks,
~Umashanthi


>
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