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Networking Software - For activists and non-activists too

Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:45 pm
by akreider
I've been developing (open source) networking software for the past five years and could use help.

It's light-weight networking. So you don't get the fluff that you would with social networking (eg. myspace).

However, in its place, I have an entire suite of supporting:
-people
-groups (can be structured into networks that have member groups)
-events
-resources (files that you can upload)
-issues/tags
-email lists
-schools

All of these things are related to each other (think: relational database).

Users add things and then control them.

Other Features
-Google Maps API - to map things.
-Geocoding (basic zip geocoding for US/Canada and international geocoding for 2 million world cities)
-Internationalization (language support)
-API - everything operates through an API. All of the data is syndicated through webservices (NuSOAP). This lets you have a server site powering multiple clients (if you wanted to have a national site and power local sites too using the same data).

It's currently powering: http://www.CampusActivism.org - a site targetting progressive campus activists which has been online for 4 years and gets an average of 4000 visits/day.

It's designed to help activists network, but really could be used by anyone who wanted to start a network.

Uses PHP 4, MySQL, and NuSOAP.

Developers Site
http://www.activismnetwork.org/developers/

I'm doing this full-time, unpaid (making tiny amounts of money from ads). So I could use volunteer developers.

Ideally the goal of this site is to spawn networking sites around the world. For instance, I've been talking to some Australians who might use it.


Email: aaron@campusactivism.org