[geeklog-devel] GSOC - Socnet

[Ruturaj Dhekane]

Hi!

I was looking at the Socnet Task, and would like post so that I understand
it better.
(here a user is referenced as a user is a entity, all other users are his
friends)

As few of the initial tasks suggest, there needs to be a big change in the
group management for geeklog.
A typical mechanism as seen in the other Social networking sites is,

A user creates groups (friends, family, students)
Permission to view a document is given to the groups. Can It be individual
members also? Probably yes, cause some friends might not be categorized into
any group by the user.
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Following this, A friend needs to connect to the user, this is a request
accept mechanism. A user might choose not to have a accept, and all requests
are automatically accepted.

He should be able to move the friends in the groups and delete them
*Do we need to think of having a friend part of multiple groups?*
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And finally notifying the friend that content has changed by the user.
I think here a lot of new ideas can be put in cause the present structure of
notification by other social networking sites is either spam-like email or
cluttered windows.

A idea would be to use a socnet specific page per user on which he gets all
the updates.
he should be able to categorize the updates or stop receiving them.
One of the current trends is to allow social networking sites to work with
wide variety of mashups, so a api could be provided to allow users
to/develop quick mashup that use socnet.

The Ideas page was pretty self explainatory, but I just want to be sure, I
understand the problem and its requirements completely.

Regards
Ruturaj

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