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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] - See also Shared Universe, a project similar to DiSo.
- Joomla
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
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?)
OpenID
- Will Norris' WP-OpenID plugin.
- OpenID Delegation Plugin
- XRDS Plugin (supports OpenID delegation)
Profiles
Groups
XMPP
I've started work on a core XMPP plugin that will enable jabber integration with Contacts / Activity Streams -- User:Steve
