Hi all, I'm working on this project:
https://lib.reviews/ The front page explains the goal: to build a free, open and non-profit community focused on reviews. Review content is under CC-BY-SA while the codebase is under CC-0. Basic functionality to write reviews is there (we identify things to review by URL for now), but there's a lot more to come. See the screencast on the front page for what is working so far. Language is a first-class citizen: both the UI _and_ all content (including review texts) are fully translatable. The site should be mobile-friendly, and work without JavaScript. I've long been involved with Wikimedia and am also a big fan of OSM; these projects are guiding me in terms of the philosophy and principles behind lib.reviews. See https://lib.reviews/terms which should give some insight into the project philosophy. I've noticed that having reviews associated with OSM data has been proposed before, e.g. [1], and so I am hoping that OSM and lib.reviews can become good friends :). The OSM POI data seems like a good way to bootstrap reviews of restaurants, businesses, and the like. If anyone wants to already get involved in investigating how this could be made to work, I'd be more than happy to schedule a video call to walk you through the codebase and architecture. I'm also happy to answer questions on-list or off-list, and if you'd like an invite-code to play with the functionality that's there so far, shoot me an offlist note or follow the instructions on the site. I believe free/open reviews are a critical component of the free culture ecosystem, alongside maps, encyclopedic content, and other information. If you agree, hope you'll check it out! Warmly, Erik [1] http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=27837 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
