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[Matthias Weiler]

Hi all!

Kopal sounds like a great project. For me the federation protocol is
the most exciting part. We have free SN platforms around, but what
they are missing is a protocol to bring them all together.

Elgg for example is thinking about a federation protocol to connect
different Elgg installations.
http://community.elgg.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=217973&group_guid=212846

buddypress, libre.fm, moodle and identi.ca would all profit from a way
to communicate with other instances of themselfes. In fact this could
be the foundation to bring all the people together under one open
standard.

The guys at xmpp.org do have a discussion list about social networking
related stuff too. This might be interesting to look at.
http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/social

Have a nice weekend!
matthias

[Vikrant]

First of all, you just went down in history as the very first person
to write in Kopal discussion group. :)

Yes, one of the primary goal of Kopal is to plug-in all these
scattered isolated social networks into a massive web-wide social
network.
To speak honestly, Kopal isn't the only federation protocol around
social networking. There are quite a few groups which are trying to
implement the same and I think you might be interested in knowing more
about them - http://groups.google.com/group/diso-project/browse_thread/thread/e1c5483f17507104#55c43ebd91cabe0d

However I believe that Kopal is most right implementation of them all
(It's just my view, I'm the author after all).

And, thanks for starting the very first thread in this discussion
group.

On Apr 2, 6:43 pm, Matthias Weiler <weiler.matth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Kopal sounds like a great project. For me the federation protocol is
> the most exciting part. We have free SN platforms around, but what
> they are missing is a protocol to bring them all together.
>
> Elgg for example is thinking about a federation protocol to connect

> different Elgg installations.http://community.elgg.org/mod/groups/topicposts.php?topic=217973&grou...

>
> buddypress, libre.fm, moodle and identi.ca would all profit from a way
> to communicate with other instances of themselfes. In fact this could
> be the foundation to bring all the people together under one open
> standard.
>
> The guys at xmpp.org do have a discussion list about social networking

> related stuff too. This might be interesting to look at.http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/social