[Imc-alternatives] open standards

[Danyl Strype]

Kia ora koutou

Aaron, I totally agree that open standards/ protocols for sharing data  
across servers is the way to go. This is what I was getting at in our  
discussion on 'distributed database' on irc. One of our Aotearoa techs  
is keen on the idea of using microformats as standards for data-sharing:
http://microformats.org/about/

I wonder what your views as a developer are on these standards:
RSS (widely used in Indymedia for syndicating newswire/ feature articles)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(file_format)

OpenID (originally developed for LiveJournal but now more widely used:
http://openid.net/

As well as sharing events over group calendars on multiple servers,  
what other kinds of data sharing can you see being useful for activist  
networking? One thing that really annoys me about the existing data  
silos is having to maintain a multitude of profiles, one for every  
site I sign up to. I'd really like to have one profile that we either:
- push its changes out to my profiles on the other sites
- have the other sites pull my public info from my one profile

RnB
Strypes

Quoting Aaron Kreider <aaron at campusactivism.org>:

> iCal and Standards
> Otherwise, I'm doing some work on Activism Network to get it in the best
> shape possible - like I recently added iCal feeds.  So all the events
> are exported into iCal, making it a lot easier to use them on other
> sites (and possibly combine with other calendars), including Drupal
> sites, as well as other calendaring software.  iCal is pretty cool. It's
> a commonly used standard.  For other things (people, groups, resources)
> - there isn't a common standard.  Hmm, developing a news-wire article
> standard might be a good imc-tech project.


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