django-friends

[James Tauber]

One of the components of the "Hot Club of France" that we've talked
about in the past is a contact/friendship management component (think
LinkedIn minus the profiles or Facebook minus, well, everything but
friends)

I've set up django-friends to this end and checked in the beginnings
of a model and a quick vCard importer (which uses the vobject library).

Here's how I describe it on the project homepage ( http://
code.google.com/p/django-friends/ ):

"""
Many websites allow users to assert relationships between other
users, to upload contacts and to invite their contacts to become users.

The project aims to provide a Django app for this sort of
functionality. This includes:

* relationships between users (possibly with different types of
relationship)
* sending and acceptance/rejection of invitations
* management of contacts who are not yet users (and notification
when they become users)
* generation of FOAF files
* import of vCard and other means of importing contacts
"""

Let me know what you think.

James
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[Fabien Schwob]

Hello,

I really like the idea and I think I would contribute since I was
thinking about developing something like that for a project.

I don't know if it's in the functionalities of django-friends, but I
would also add a group management system. It's a good way to organize
your friends on a social network.

PS: Hey James, if you continue to create all this useful apps for
Django (django-friends, django-mailer, ..), the life of a Django
developer will be to add 3 or 4 lines in it main urls.py and to have a
running site ;)

--
Fabien SCHWOB

[James Tauber]

> I really like the idea and I think I would contribute since I was
> thinking about developing something like that for a project.
>
> I don't know if it's in the functionalities of django-friends, but I
> would also add a group management system. It's a good way to organize
> your friends on a social network.

Yes, I think user-created groups would belong in django-friends.

> PS: Hey James, if you continue to create all this useful apps for
> Django (django-friends, django-mailer, ..), the life of a Django
> developer will be to add 3 or 4 lines in it main urls.py and to have a
> running site ;)

That's actually a nice way of describing the vision for the Hot Club
of France. Of course, it's not just my apps: there's django-
registration, django-openid, django-tagging, django-voting, etc. all
of which help fulfill the vision.

James

[arv43]

i like this idea a lot. is there any date on when this will be
completed? i have a few ideas, but am just beginning to code in
django. i would like to contribute to this though, if needed.

thanks
Arvind

[James Tauber]

I keep getting distracted by ideas for new sites, but there is now
starting to be a critical mass of my own sites that need me to finish
django-mailer, django-friends, etc.

I tend to work in fits and spurts and each project is just a way of
procrastinating (which tends to mean I'm always working on the second
most important project at any point in time :-)

I'm about to deploy a new closed alpha of my site, habitualist, and
once that's done, I will probably spend more of my spare time on
django-mailer and django-friends (possibly as procrastination when I
really should be working on Quisition and Cats or Dogs).

James