Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] Reqesting Details About GSoc2009

[Gary Cunningham-L. <ga...@cu...>]

Hi Gayana,

Thanks for your interest in TikiWiki. This is just a coincidence, but 
some time ago I wrote up a wiki page about the topic you are interested 
in. This is the address: 
http://zukakakina.com/Tiki_and_Social_Networking . This was written when 
TikiWiki was at version 1.9.7. It's now at 2.3 and version 3.0 will be 
out next month or so, so there are some changes. For one thing, users 
can now assign themselves to a group, I believe. But TikiWiki is still 
missing some main features of a social networking site, I would say. But 
I'm not an expert on social networking sites, so my analysis is probably 
not the best.

I suppose it would be good to make a list of the features and functions 
that are necessary for a social networking site, and then see how many 
of these are present or missing in TikiWiki. Even if you are an 
experienced PHP programmer, I think it takes quite a bit of time to 
figure out how things are done in TikiWiki's code.

I am pretty busy these days working on themes for TikiWiki. I'm not a 
PHP coder, but rather work mostly with CSS. If you want to add code to 
the project, it would be good for you to contact someone who knows PHP 
and the TikiWiki codebase well. Maybe the developer mailing list would 
be a good place to do this - http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=64258.

Regards,

Gary

Gayana Chandrasekara wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm am Gayana from Sri Lanka. This is my first time to join for GSoc. 
> I read the project ideas and I like to present a proposal on "*Social 
> Networking based on Existing Friends and Profiles Features*". I 
> installed the tikiwiki in my local machine and I'm getting familiarized.
> Could you please tell some details about this project idea (*Social 
> Networking based on Existing Friends and Profiles Features*) and what 
> you expect from this project? 
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> GAyaNA
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