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 > > -- > Luciano Resende > http://people.apache.org/~lresende > http://twitter.com/lresende1975 > http://lresende.blogspot.com/ >
