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Contents 1 Welcome to the DiSo Project Wiki 1.1 Target CMSs 1.2 Project efforts 1.3 Wiki status 2 Getting started 3 Someday/Maybe 4 Components 4.1 Contacts List 4.2 Profiles 4.3 Messaging / Activity Streams 4.4 Groups 5 Technologies 5.1 OpenID 5.2 XRDS-Simple 5.3 OAuth + Extensions 5.4 AtomPub 5.5 XMPP 6 Best Practices

Welcome to the DiSo Project Wiki

Social networks are becoming more open, more interconnected, and more distributed. Many of us in the web creation world are embracing and promoting web standards - both client-side and server-side. Microformats, standard apis, and open-source software are key building blocks of these technologies. This model can be described as having three sides/legs/arms/spokes - pick your connection: Information, Identity, and Interaction.

DiSo (dee • zoh) is an umbrella project for a group of open source implementations of these distributed social networking concepts using the framework/platform of existing content management systems, or as Chris puts it: "to build a social network with its skin inside out".

Target CMSs

Our first target is WordPress, bootstrapping on existing work and building out from there.

Other possible targets include;

• Drupal [1]
  • Shared Universe, a project similar to DiSo, not as active
  • Groups.Drupal: OpenSocial
  • Groups.Drupal: Social Networking Sites
• Joomla
• Movable Type

Project efforts

The main efforts will be in Research, User Interface and Development. Our areas of investigation will broadly include:

• People and Organizations
• Contacts and Friends
• Permissions and access
• Activity & Update Streams
• Messaging (cross-site communications)
• Resources (may include events, photos, videos, etc)

Wiki status

• Check out the OpenID Issues if you're having problems logging in.

Getting started

We've started a page to help get you oriented on how to get involved.

A rough roadmap is also under construction.

Here's where the DiSo project exists now:

• The DiSo Project website
• The code.
• The mailing list.
• The DiSo Flickr group

• Feature Inquiries

Someday/Maybe

The list of stuff that may or may not become part of DiSo is on the someday-maybe page.

Components

Contacts List

The wp-diso-contactlist plugin.

• contacts-installation
• contacts-brainstorming
• contacts-usecases (is there a microformats-style standard name for this?)

Profiles

• profiles-brainstorming
• profiles-implementations

Messaging / Activity Streams

Messaging (direct messaging and interaction reuqests) and activity streams (activity notifications, whether push or pull).

• messaging-brainstorming
• messaging-implementations
• xmpp-brainstorming
• activity-streams
• activity-streams-examples

Groups

• groups-brainstorming

Technologies

OpenID

• Will Norris' WP-OpenID plugin.
• OpenID Delegation Plugin
• XRDS Plugin (supports OpenID delegation)

XRDS-Simple

XRDS-Simple is a simplified version of XRDS, a document format for service discovery and a growing standard among social web services.

• XRDS-Simple Plugin for WordPress (Stephen Weber)
• XRDS-Simple for Movable Type (Steve Ivy)
• XRDS-Simple for Drupal (James Walker)

OAuth + Extensions

• oauth-brainstorming

AtomPub

XMPP

• xmpp-brainstorming

Started work on a core XMPP plugin that will enable jabber integration with Contacts / Activity Streams -- User:Steve

Best Practices

• best-practices