At the JoomlaDay Espain Johan Janssens, the Joomla! Co-Founder and former 1.5 Lead Developer puts out some very important reminders:
“An open source project is about people producing free and open software and contributing to something as a team for the benefit of others.”
“Open source projects reflect the spirit of collaboration and fun while garnering community feedback and providing good governance that allows for business to confidently invest in its development.”
“Open source projects are open to the participation of anybody who can contribute value and is willing to work with the community.”
and my most favorite of all:
“As individuals we’re all pretty good but as a collective, we’re amazing!”
We would like to thank the Nooku and Beyounic teams for presenting the Anahita project at the Joomla Day Italia Rome and Nooku presentation. I must say nothing is more encouraging and energizing to us after long sleepless days of coding when a pack of truly awesome friends and brilliant minds spread the word for us with lots of enthusiasm half way across the planet. Ash and I feel truly blessed, appreciated and fortunate to meet and work with the Nooku (twitter: @nooku) and Beyounic (twitter: @beyounic) teams. Thank you for being so awesome
Anahita Social Engine™ is an open source and architecturally organic platform and framework for developing all kinds of custom social networking solutions. This technology is being developed by rmdStudio Inc. and Peerglobe Technology Inc. using the Nooku Framework agile and RAD technology. Nooku and Beyounic teams are both in the global tribe of Anahita partners and have been great supporters of this project.
Just a quick announcement that we have launched Anahitapolis.com which is the Anahita Social Engine ™ project website. Here is the first Hello World blog post. Please follow the blog and the project twitter feed @anahitapolis to receive more updates about this project!
For those of you who don’t know yet, Anahita Social Engine ™ is a light and scalable open source solution for building Social Networks, Intranets, and so many other types of social web experiences developed by rmd Studio and Peerglobe Technology.
You might have heard rumours around the web about this project, but the cat is out of the bag and the project is real. For the past 18 months rmd Studio (Rastin Mehr – Lead Web Application Architect) and Peerglobe technology (Ash Sanieyan – Lead Web Application Architect) have been working round the clock in collaboration with Johan Janssens and Mathias Verraes, as Nooku MVC Framework consultants from Joomlatools, to develop the ideal Open Source Social Web platform.
Is this yet another facebook cloner? Not really! In fact unlike many microwave-quick-oatmeal social networking builder options available out there, our focus has been to develop a generic, modular and flexible platform for developing Social Web * (as ANYTHING) and that will include not only Social Networking websites, but also Social Intranets, eLearning, Community Markets, Services and electronic goods Support & Distribution websites, or any unheard of social web business and work flow models that we could ever come up with in the future. As you can see Social Networking as we know it today, is only one of the many possibilities.
We also think that for a project to success it does not matter that how great it is at a certain point of time, but how well it is able to evolve and change over time. A design that adapts itself to different life case scenarios and market trend changes will have a much higher chance of survival and success. That means staying modular, generic, and not trying to be everything to everybody!
So we have built that framework
The good news is that Anahita project is now finally ready for deploying client projects. The public GPL release is yet few months away and there is a good reason behind it:
Richard Stallman the founder of free software movement in his lecture at the University of British Columbia explains the 4 aspects of freedom when using a free software. Unfortunately we missed this event due to our client deadlines, well thank goodness for the YouTube and also this event was live blogged by my good friend @hummingbird604here
According to him, a program is free software if you the user have the 4 essential freedoms
0. Freedom to run the program as you wish.
1. Freedom to study the source code of the program and then change it so the program does what you wish.
2. Freedom to help your neighbour. That’s the freedom to redistribute the exact copies of the software when you wish.
3. Freedom to contribute to your community. That’s the freedom to distribute copies or modified versions when you wish.
If the program gets you all these 4 essential freedoms, then it is free software.
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