proximate

Proximate is a social P2P application designed for local device to device networking that provides social communities with several user functions: Messaging, filesharing, and message board. It works over wireless/wired link such as adhoc WLAN and LAN

Features

Create and manage communities
Useful for quickly sharing information between computers in a LAN without any configuration
Meet new people and browse their profiles
Easy-to-use graphical user interface
Community and user-to-user chat
Publish messages to local message board
Only TCP/IP is assumed: Works over wireless/wired links such as ad hoc WLAN and Ethernet LAN
Optimized to work on mobile devices, such as Nokia N900

Project Samples

Proximate on N900 browsing shared content

Proximate on Desktop Linux showing a list of active users

Proximate on Desktop Linux chatting with other user

Proximate on N900 showing a list of active users

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License

BSD License

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux

Intended Audience

End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Curses/Ncurses, GTK+

Programming Language

Python

Related Categories

Python Conferencing Software, Python Topic Software

Registered

2011-08-25

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