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This wiki is for planning of and collaboration on creating a FriendFeed clone. Feel free to contribute ideas and suggestions for features.

Also see the FriendFeed room and the Google Group.

Contents 1 Mission 2 Roadmap 3 Who's Doing What? 4 OpenFF Technical Details 5 OpenFF Source 6 OpenFF Current Topics 7 OpenFF In The News 8 OpenFF Programming Resources

Mission

Create a free and open client and server for Friendfeed-like social networks, based of version 2 of the FriendFeed API and consisting of stream aggregation, asynchronus relationships, and serendipitous content discovery.

Roadmap

(see main article Roadmap)

• Phase 0: Infrastructure setup (current phase)
• Phase 1: Implement an FF API v2 compatible API.
• Phase 2: Implement service imports.
• Phase 3: UI implementation, although that can happen in parallel to the API implementation.
• Phase 4: Federation features.

Who's Doing What?

• Contributors - List of users contributing to the project in some way
• Work In Progress - If you're currently working on a technical or administrative task, please add your name and what you're working on.
• Help Wanted - A list of open positions we need to fill.

OpenFF Technical Details

• Database
• Data Structures
• API
• Features
• Standards and protocols

OpenFF Source

The OpenFF project is hosted on github. You can browse the project (which is currently in a non-working state) here.

OpenFF Current Topics

• Art - Logos, mockups
• Domain Name Vote - Voting is CLOSED. The official domain name will be OpenFF.org.

OpenFF In The News

• 2009-08-24 - Random Time Lords #11 - Interview of Jason Huebel about OpenFF (starts around 31:00)
• 2009-08-21 - Real Time Search Over Federated Networks - By Mark Essel, discusses federated protocols, OpenFF and Pubsubhubbub.

OpenFF Programming Resources

• Programming Language Resources:
  • Dive Into Python
• Possibility of building on one of several existing projects, including
  • Noserub - See discussion in CloneFeed room
  • Melkjug - open source feed aggregator with collaborative filtering
  • identi.ca or laconi.ca
  • Elgg
  • LiveJournal SVN repository
  • Mugshot (former RedHat project, client could someone track down the server code? mugshot.org is out of service)
  • WordPress
  • Pinax - a Django-based python development environment that includes support for authentication, twitter-like microblogging, etc out of the box.