elong L
Life ng: 3-ICT
Learnin KA3
l Networkin for Life
Rural Social N ng arning- So
elong Lea L
oRuraLL
No. 0-LLP-1-20
Project N 143680 KA3-KA3M
008-1-GR-K MP
erable 3.1: Initial Scenarios of Use
Delive l e
eliverable R
De Report
Task No: 1
3.1
kage:
Work Pack 3
onsible Partn Organisa
Task Respo ner ation: Au echnologies, Informatics
udiovisual Te s
d
and Telecomm (ATiT)
munications (
Leuvensesteennweg 132
70
337 Roosbeek k
elgium
Be
Authors: lly s Andries, ATiT
Sal Reynolds and Peter A
rs:
Contributor l rtners
All project par
Status, Version No. nal/Approve
Fin ed
f e:
Due date of deliverable 9
31 March 2009
mission date
Actual subm e: 2 April 2009
A
of
Start Date o Project: 09
01 January 200
Duration: 24 Months
tion Level:
Disseminat U
PU
Financing: oject partiall funded by the Europea
Pro ly y an
ommission, L
Co arning
Lifelong Lea
ogramme (20 - 2010)
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009
2 April 20
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ents
Conte
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Summary ............................................................. ....................
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Introduction .........................................................
I n ....................
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ion eliverable........................
Introducti to this de ....................
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Structure, Purpose and Target ......................... ....................
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Defining the context ............................................
D e ....................
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Target Us ....................................................
sers ....................
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uirements ..........................................
User Requ ....................
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Defining the Tools ..............................................
D e ....................
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Introducti to social networking....................
ion ....................
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alities .................................................
Functiona ....................
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E f e
Examples of tools in use .....................................
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ctors ...................................................
Success Fac ....................
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U hops in May ......................................
User worksh ....................
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Methodology ................................................... ....................
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A resentation o Technolog and Sele
Annex 1: Pr of gies ected Tools ..
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y
Summary
T ent d e ial ing ong
This docume produced right at the start of the "Rural Soci Networki for Lifelo Learning"
),
(SoRuraLL) No. 143680-LLP-1-20 008-1-GR-KA P,
A3-KA3MP Project par rtially funded by the
E
European Co ommission, Lifelong Le earning Progr 09 s s
ramme (200 - 2010), is intended as an initial
m ed ps ew
mapping of the identifie user group with a vie to highlig expected nee and
ghting their e eds
r ts he nce rea. r
requirement based on th partners’ knowledge and experien in this ar In order to map thes se
n the s
needs onto t intended pilots, users needs and r s
requirements have been highlighted based upon a
c on
categorizatio of users s sorted accord re ocated, in rur schools, in rural
ding to wher they are lo ral
t or
telecentres o in rural vo ining/professional development cent which m
ocational trai tres match where the
SoRuraLL p e
pilots will be taking place.
U al
Users in rura schools pr resent with a variety of nneeds encommpassing com mmunication needs as well
n
a ated
as needs rela to learn ning opportun nities and re
esources. The same is tru for users i rural
e ue in
t and nal
telecentres a vocation training/p professional developmen centres. So
nt ocial networ rking tools caan
o east f
offer a way to meet at le some of these needs and so we h o
have identified a series of potential tools
a s e o ted
and services that may be of interest and value to those target in the So oRuraLL pro oject. These have
b
been categor ding to the fu
rized accord unctionality eeach offers.
T a summary of w the par
This report also provides an initial s what rtners consid to be success factors
der
r hich
related to the way in wh social ne ools e
etworking to alleviate various dif fferent types of
d r rs.
disadvantages faced by rural learner These fac rrespond to t extent to which such
ctors will cor the h
t alue a n of at
tools add va or have an impact on the types o learning processes tha the targeted users unde ergo,
t o y
the extent to which they add value o have an im
or mpact on the notion of in d
nclusion, add value or haave
a n al
an impact on institutiona and pedag gogical innov vation and change and fi xtent to whic
finally the ex ch
t lue an
they add val or have a impact on increasing u
n users’ aware ral,
eness of any ethical, mor legal and d
h rity
human secur issues ar rising from t their use of s
such tools in order to ma them mo informed
n ake ore d,
a o
secure and aware users of online ser types.
rvices of all t
T art
The final pa of this doccument desccribes the use workshop due to take place in all 7 partners’
er ps e l
t communities in April/Ma 2009. The worksho will inclu 4 main e
target user c ay ese ops ude elements, a
p n
presentation about the ty
ypes of socia networkin software b
al ng being used in training an education,
n nd
d o hat
discussion to find out wh types of social netwo g ready using,
orking tools those taking part are alr
d o kinds of need they can identify that might be me by the use of one or m
discussion to see what k ds et e more
o es n user
of these type of tool and discussion about the u trials pla anned for Occtober 2009 – June 2010 0.
A
Annex 1 con utcomes of a study into p
ntains the ou possible tech
hnologies and tools to be used during the
d e g
SoRuraLL tr CTI he es
rials carried out by RAC during th first phase of the pro oject which t n
took place in
p h
parallel with the preparaation of Deliverable 3.1.
3
I
Introduction
T ve ural
The objectiv of the "Ru Social N for
Networking f Lifelong Learning" (SoRuraLL), No. 143680 0-
L
LLP-1-2008 8-1-GR-KA3 3-KA3MP, P Project partia funded b the Europ
ally by pean Commi ong
ission, Lifelo
L
Learning Pro ogramme (2009 - 2010) is to investi ential for enh
igate the pote ong
hanced lifelo learning g
o rking tools a platform to those liv
offered by social networ and ms ving in geog nd
graphically an socio-
e ly
economicall disadvanta aged rural arreas. During the project, the partners will base th work on
g s heir n
e al
experimenta learning appproaches de eveloped and implement in order to examine t potential
d ted the l
o rking tools f the alleviation of the disadvantag suffered by rural
offered by social networ for ge y
p They will use these tools to provide opportunitie for effectiv and
populations in Europe. T s es ve
m rning in seve different user setting
meaningful lifelong lear eral t gs.
D
During the l he
lifetime of th project, th partners w bring tog
he will gether and fu op
urther develo content,
services, ped d for
dagogies and practices f social life elong learnin in rural ar
ng reas, formula ic
ating specifi
f al ng
scenarios of use of socia networkin tools and p hich r
platforms wh will be tested with real learners in s
d as,
disadvantaged rural area and evalu ms
uated in term of their immpact on lear earning,
rning (self-le
i
informal pee f ning) and inc
er-learning, formal learn clusion (deve elopment of e-skills and competence es,
l
linking up of learning co p
ommunities, building up of new part This d
tnerships). T will be done in order to
c e t
consolidate an evidence base on the added-value and impact of social ne ools
etworking to and
p or
platforms fo rural learnning, with a particular att
p stitutional as well as ped
tention to ins s dagogical
i and
innovation a change.
Several techhnological so luding weblo wikis, p
olutions will be tried incl ogs, cial
podcasts, soc software e,
v al ell
virtual socia sites, as we as tools ssuch as mobi phones, and various u
ile a mes
usage schem in the
d ctors of lifelo learning both forma (school, hi
different sec ong g, al tion, VET, a
igher educat on)
adult educatio
a al. or
and informa Options fo citizens’ access to dig
a es be d,
gital resource will also b examined making use of
g ce
good practic examples in areas of w work such as the operatio of telecen
s on dvantaged ar
nters in disad reas,
t atellite broad
the use of sa dband in rem rural are as well a other open and distan access
mote eas, as n nt
a
approaches.
A major out tcome will be the promot w
tion of a new vision for the use of soocial networ nd
rking tools an
p or n
platforms fo learning in favour of th geograph
he o-economica and digit
hically, socio ally tally
d w
disadvantaged, which will be proact to
tively fed int policy ma ducation and training
aking and edu
systems, aim eve
ming to achie a multiplier effect ac E
cross rural Europe. Over ovation produ
rall, the inno uced
i ct
in the projec will be carrefully groun
nded on exis sting knowle edge and expperiences, thr rough an
i y ve
introductory comparativ analysis of existing pr ractices aimi to identif transferab good prac
ing fy ble ctice
a g
and success factors. A clear lifelong learning sta n, g
ance is taken addressing multiple se ding
ectors includ
school educa r
ation, higher education, adult educat aining.
tion and professional tra
P f
Purpose of this Document
This docume produced right at the start of the SoRuraLL p
T ent d e vides an initi mapping of
project, prov ial
t ps
the identified user group and highli ed ds
ights expecte user need and requir ed
rements base on the
p d e a.
partners’ knowledge and experience in this area It also prov e
vides an overview of the type of
at ted us
solutions tha are expect to apply in the variou target gro rst
oups and a fir introduct tion to the
s rs u work based on previous experiences. It also prov
success facts the partner expect to use in their w o vides
4
a w hodological a
an overview of the meth approach tha the partner will take f the first r
at rs for er
round of use
w p April/May 2
workshops planned for A 2009.
of cument
Structure o this Doc
T on
The intentio of this doccument is to provide a so base for the work of the project consortium and
olid r f
t s work being undertaken. I begins wit an overvie
to be used as a guide in the initial stages of the w u It th ew
o xt
of the contex and provides a descrip users that ar to be targe in the So
ption of the u re eted oRuraLL
p se ls,
project, thos located in rural school in rural te nd
elecentres an in rural vo l
ocational or professional
d nt es
developmen centres. It then provide a list of th types of u
he ments eviden in each gr
users requirem nt roup
t the ce
taken from t experienc of the pro oject partners in other rel ts tives.
lated project and initiat
T f ment
The second main part of this docum provides an overview of the type of tools w have defin
s w es we ned
a evant for this project wh come un
as being rele s hich nder the broa
adly accepted group of to and serv
d ools vices
k
known colle ocial networking tools. T
ectively as so matrix form according to t
These are defined in a m their
y
functionality which inclu o we o the LL
udes many of the tools w expect to use during t SoRuraL trials. This is
w of n
followed by a chapter with a series o examples taken from partners own work and o es
other source
g e o
giving some examples of these tools in use in a learning con
s ss e
ntext. Succes factors are then descriibed
i t w e
in terms of the factors which will be defined acc cording to th extent to w
he which they h have an impaact
o us
on the variou broad cat ed
tegories of need identifie with the taargeted rural learners.
F e c
Finally there is a short chapter descrribing the fir workshop due to tak place in A
rst ps ke April/May in each
u
user commu unity which d describes gennerally what will take pl
t these worksh
lace during t hops and whhen
t ke
they will tak place.
A
Annex 1 con utcomes of a study into p
ntains the ou possible tech d e g
hnologies and tools to be used during the
SoRuraLL tr CTI he es
rials carried out by RAC during th first phase of the pro oject which ttook place inn
p h
parallel with the prepara ale ng
ation of Deliverable 3.1. The rationa for carryin out this s study at this
r arly as der
relatively ea stage wa that in ord for the pa sent e
artners to be able to pres concrete ideas to
w
workshop pa articipants abbout what th proposed SoRuraLL L
he orld
Learning Wo might co e
ontain, there was
the ng ive n ies
a need to conduct from t beginnin an extensi survey on technologi and tools in order to s
p t nal
prepare a set of function specificat tions to be p
presented in t forthcom
the ming workshops. This lin nks
d T ch
directly to Task 5.1 whic states tha the consort
at tium will use the work ccarried out unnder Task 3. .1,
t ops
the worksho carried out in Task 3.2 and the st s
tudy on tools to finally select the technologies th hat
w d ion
will be used in the creati of the So oRurall Lear rning World.
5
D t xt
Defining the Contex
T k n
The first task undertaken by the part en o t
tners has bee to define exactly who this project is aimed at as
w escribe in co
well as to de oncrete terms why this w
s g n.
work in being undertaken Taking as a starting po oint
t ion rget e
the descripti of the tar users included in the project pro oposal, the p some
project team have spent s
t tages of the p
time during the initial st project elabo
orating the in
nitial target u bed
users describ in simpl le
t ged
terms in the proposal as those engag in learnin ng@school, learning@w work and lear me.
rning@hom
ers
Target Use
I provide a goo overview of the targe users fores
In order to p od w et ve d n
seen, we hav organised this section and
d of o
description o the users according to where they can be foun Although not exclusi
y nd. h ble
ively availab in
o
one of the foollowing loc eneral terms opportunitie for learnin in rural co
cations, in ge es ng ommunities are
a with he ool, o
associated w either th local scho the local telecentre or the local tr rofessional
raining or pr
d nt S
developmen centre. In SoRuraLL, w will be en
we h ach
ngaging with users in ea of these s settings and so it
i consider targ users in these terms.
is useful to c get t
R argeted in ru schools i
Rural Schools: Users ta ural following:
include the f
• chers at both primary and secondary level
Teac h d
• mary and seco
Prim l
ondary level pupils
• ool
Scho administr rators
• nts ng
Paren engaged in supportin school act tivities
• port
Supp staff inc cluding librar ervice provid
rians, ICT se ders, etc.
R centres: Use targeted i rural telec
Rural Telec ers in centres include the follow
wing:
• ple with
Peop living in a rural area w an inter in follow
rest se for
wing a cours of study fo reasons to do o
nt al
with employmen or persona interest
• mers ers re
Farm and othe engaged in agricultur related ac ve
ctivities who want to hav more acce to ess
ning opportu
learn prove their f
unities to imp farm manage ated
ement or rela skills.
• Mem advantaged g
mbers of disa ed
groups locate in rural co o
ommunities who want to engage in
e felong learnin
some form of life ng
• men sh ce s
Wom who wis to enhanc their skills and opportu gh
unities thoug learning
• w g
Elderly people who are seeking learning opportunitie es
• al eurs
Loca entreprene seeking new opportu roadening th horizons through
unities by br heir s
rmal learning opportunit
infor g ties
• al nals
Loca profession including medical pr rofessionals with an inte easing their s
erest in incre skills
knowledge b
and k base and in k o the
keeping up to date with t latest dev i
velopments in their
ession includ
profe ding legislative changes
R
Rural Voca ning/Profes
ational Train ssional Deve elopment Ce e entres cater f
entres: these types of ce for
m u
many of the groups of users already described u T ly
under Rural Telecentres, but generall provide m more
n f hey
formalised learning opportunities in the form of courses. Th are some n
etimes known as Lifelong
L
Learning Ce enerally cate to the follo
entres and ge er owing:
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• ng
Youn people liv area
ving in the a or return rea
ning to the ar who wish to follow a course to
imprrove their emmployment p prospects
• Mem al
mbers of loca administra ation or othe publically funded bodi who wish to enhance or
er ies h e
mise
optim their sk killset
• f MEs
Staff in rural SM who wis to follow a formal cou of study or engage i an informa
sh urse y in al
ning opportu
learn unity to enha ills to
ance their ski relative t their work k
• ple o e tudy
Peop living in the area who would like to follow a course of stu or a retr raining
oppoortunity brou y n
ught about by changes in circumstan ng
nces includin redundanc cy
• ng r nt
Youn mothers returning to employmen after pregn nancy
• fessionals in a rural comm
Profe r eir
munity who wish to maintain and/or enhance the professio onal
s rses r
skills through following cour or other learning op related to the professio
pportunities r eir on.
This includes me and
edical staff a practition ners
N are d
None of those targeted a expected to have a pa igh d of
articularly hi level of skills related to the use o
I here
ICT, nor do we expect th to be pa articular tech
hnical infras
structure requ
uirements beeyond norma al
a standard PC and the Internet as norm
access to a s ed
mally provide by either rural Telece ing
entres, Traini
C Schools.
Centres or S
U uirements
User Requ
W n to
While it is not possible t define in a rigid way t specific u requirem
the user ch oups
ments of eac of the gro
m it o
mentioned, i is useful to provide a b ption of som of the more general re
broad descrip me equirements of
e on of nd
each based o a survey o available literature an the experi partners invo
ience of the p olved in
n n ot ll in ous
SoRurall. In this section we have no covered al the groups mentioned i the previo section, b but
l d roups of targ users who will be the focus of ou efforts in th
limited ourselves instead to those gr get o ur his
p
project.
T s
Target Users Requirement
R ts
School Comm munities N mmunication with other rural commu
Need for com r ncludes the
unities, this in
include pupi
i ils, requirement fo remote and isolated sch
r for d le e
hools to be abl to open the school and tthe
teachers, par
t rents, surrounding c
s offset the dang of isolati
community to the world in an effort to o gers ion.
ive
administrati staff
and others F
Foster comm munication/ participate in telematic-ba s
ased projects with centers s
featured by sim
f and
milar needs a situations, at both the n national and international
er fferent realitie and cultura resources. T can inclu
levels, in orde to share dif es al This ude
the share of knnowledge, cuurricular objec ng/learning pr
ctives, teachin of
ractices, and o
f
finding a way to establish a communica ation process bbetween pupils.
Need for supp
N port and gui ncludes the re
idance, this in or ls
equirement fo rural school to
obtain support guidance an new ideas about ICT-ba
o t, nd onal
ased educatio resources s.
Need for lang
N ng n
guage learnin which can be directly re ping the schoo
elated to help ol
community en
c use h
nhance their u of English in a context of communic cation within an
network.
international n
Some rural areas have spec
S ts ak
cific dialects, and in some cases student do not spea the
n uage. Thus, th can be a need to prac
national langu here onal languag
ctice the natio ge.
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Need for acce to more and better lea
N ess arning resour rces in the form of Open
Educational re
E a
esources and repositories and other mat arning
terials and lea
opportunities not easily ava
o including rem laborator
ailable in the rural school i mote ries
and
a cultural centres.
Need to have access to mu
N verlapping knowledge str
ultiple and ov reams in a wo orld
where knowle
w asingly complex and where the notion of strict divisio
edge is increa e ons
between differ fields of study and dis
b rent f ecoming less and less valid
sciplines is be d.
Need for acce to learnin opportunit not prov
N ess ng ties ocal
vided in the lo school d todue
urces, e.g. spe
a lack of resou ge pportunities o specialist
ecific languag teaching op or
subjects.
s
Familiarisation to ICT to which can include prom
F ools n al
moting digita literacy
generally amo
g ool ty
ongst the scho communit and improv ving the level of ICT skill.
There is also o
T to he re
often a need t connect th school mor comprehensively with the
community w
c o hancing the en
which can also include enh f hool
ngagement of parents in sch
activities.
a
Teachers and others workin in rural sch
T ng hools have a clear need to engage in
rning opportunities where they can enhance exist
informal lear eby d
ting skills and
k nd new
knowledge an engage in n learning experiences.
There is also a need for tea
T hers up ith
achers and oth to keep u to date wi teaching
methodologie and to mak sure there is access to ne teaching tools, resource
m es ke i ew es
and
a services
School comm
S need to provid more mean
munities also n de nriched
ningful and en
experiences fo students via contact wit other cultu
e or th ures and sch his
hools and in th
and ys
a other way to focus more on activi to
ities related t creativity and innovati ion.
In e ed the
I return there is also a nee to change t status of r a
rural schools and to recognnize
d
the unique and special posi ural y
ition of the ru school by providing b ity
better visibili
for ols,
f rural schoo and enhan ncing the cred ral
dibility of rur schools in the eyes of thhe
wider commu
w unity.
Telecentre C
T Clients Target clients like local far
T ucers need access to the la
rmers and local agro-produ atest
information c he
concerning th latest agro- e.g.
-economic developments, e new and
alternative tec
a n
chnologies on farming incl riculture, ecol
luding bio agr y
logical/energy
saving method
s g
dologies etc., innovations generally.
L s elecentres also need access to e-learnin opportuni
Local farmers accessing Te s ng ities
eir e
to improve the knowledge and skills re o-economic ac
elated to agro ctivity
Networking a learning opportunities provided b communiti of practice
N and g by ies e
provide a way to answer th need for ma Telecentr clients to le
p y he any re de
earn alongsid
others in simil situations and to learn f
o lar erience of oth thus avoiding
from the expe hers
isolation.
Clients attend
C tres portunities to help them im
ding such cent need opp o r
mprove their
8
employment opportunitie and be mor successful i their jobs, this includes
e es re in
agricultural pr
a eneurs.
roducers and local entrepre
N lop and
Need to devel cultural a eco-tour rism in the re h
egion through access to
bout current d
information ab s
developments in tourism.
Students accessing Telecen
S eir o s
ntres need to improve the learning opportunities
supported by ICT.
s I
Farmers and o
F ed mmerce need to expand th economi
others engage in local com d heir ic
h finding out mo about new markets and new produc
horizons by f ore w d ues.
ction techniqu
According as we see an inc
A f elecentre clien
creased use of multimedia generally, Te nts
need to enhan their skil in relation to the creat
n nce lls n tion and mannagement of
multimedia in order to bet function in the digital w
m n tter i y.
word of today
Current and
C d U needs identified for young people attending suc centres in r
User a ch rural areas inc
clude
Potential Use of
P ers their need to find out mor about the o
f re opportunitie open to the and ways in
es em
Rural Traini
R ing which they ca improve their perspectiv on top of c
w an ves courses relate to specific
ed
Centres
C skills.
s
Users attendin such centre need flexib learning opportunitie available w
U ng es ble es when
and e
a where the users are loccated.
Entrepreneurs accessing su learning centres require for there to be suitable
E s uch c e
training and professional developmen provision t meets the needs for just-
t l nt that eir
ng them to grow their busines and support
in-time trainin opportunities allowing t w sses
ic
local economi developme ent.
Training centr clients face a world whe
T re e ereby online c ny
collaboration is key to man
facets of daily life, from on
f y g rchasing and e-commerce,
nline working to online pur ,
e or ts y,
therefore there is a need fo such client to learn to comfortably efficiently and
safely inhabit the online w
s t world.
U n
Users active in local produ vice n d
uction and serv provision of one kind or another ne eed
access to form and infor
a mal ties o
rmal learning opportunit related to e-trading a and
e-commerce (
e direct sales of tourism prod
(e.g. online d vices, online
ducts and serv
purchase of m
p materials).
9
D t
Defining the Tools
I on
In this sectio of this do
ocument, we will provide a general overview of t various types of soci
e o the t ial
n tly e
networking tools current available and which are under co ect um.
onsideration by the proje consortiu
D working
Defining Social Netw
W with d f ices, we favo the one provided by
We begin w a broad definition of social networking servi our p
W w es etworking se
Wikipedia which define a social ne ervice as:
“ etwork servic focuses on building o
“A social ne ce online comm eople who sh interests
munities of pe hare
and/or activi
a ities, or who are interest in explor
o ted ring the inter
rests and acti hers.” 1
ivities of oth
T ion
This definiti clearly p e
points out the key-elemen of buildin a successf online co
nt ng ful ommunity by y
m s ommon grou between different us on which
means of a social networking service: finding co und sers h
t are ces.
they can sha experienc Usually, areas of int terest are ind
dicated by m rofile that ev
means of a pr very
u
user comple ay, ded nd r, er
etes. This wa like-mind people can easily fin each other get togethe and share
i
information online.
A this
Annex 1 to t report co ontains a Pr
resentation o Technolo
of ools
ogies and of Selected To which w was
p RACTI, based on their research into s
prepared by Project Co-ordinator, R d ting open sou
several exist urce
es networking s
systems for various type of social n systems that were mentio SoRuraLL
oned in the S
p
proposal.
F lities
Functional
W g tworking ser
When trying to categorise social net rvices, a goo approach i to look at the different
od is t
ies c
functionaliti that are commonly co ed networking:
onsidered as being relate to social n
W
Wiki = Coll a
laborative article writinng
page or colle
A wiki is a p b
ection of web pages desi ble who bute
igned to enab anyone w accesses it to contrib
o
or modify co g anguage. Wi are often used to cre
ontent, using a simplified mark-up la ikis n eate
c and r y The
collaborative websites a to power community websites. T collabora opaedia
ative encyclo
Wikipedia is one of the best-known wikis. 2
W s
B
Blog
ontraction of the term "W log") is a Web site, u
A blog (a co f Web usually main n
ntained by an individual l
w r s o
with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other mat s r
terial such as graphics or
v es
video. Entrie are comm monly display in revers
yed gical order. "
se-chronolog also
"Blog" can a be used as a
verb, meanin to mainta or add co
v ng ain log. 3
ontent to a bl
1
dia.org/wiki/Social
http://en.wikiped e
l_network_service
2
dia.org/wiki/Wiki
http://en.wikiped
3
dia.org/wiki/Blog
http://en.wikiped
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V
Vlog
V ging, sometim shortene to vloggin or vidblogging is a fo of blogg
Video blogg mes ed ng orm ch
ging for whic
t
the medium is video. En ade y combine emb
ntries are ma regularly and often c o
bedded video or a video link
with support
w ting text, im
mages, and otther metadata 4
a.
M
Message bo oard or foruum
A
An Internet forum, or m d,
message board is an onlin discussion site. It is th modern e
ne n he f
equivalent of a
t bulletin board and a tech
traditional b d, hnological ev
volution of th dialup bu
he om
ulletin board system. Fro a
t al t,
technologica standpoint forums or boards are w applicat
web ing
tions managi user-gen ent.
nerated conte
P an
People participating in a Internet fo uild er est
orum can bu bonds with each othe and intere groups wi ill
easily form around a top
e pic's discussi subjects dealt within or around s
ion, s n sections in th forum. 5
he
P
Personal messaging
A personal m private message, often sh
message or p PM, an nt
hortened to P is like a e-mail sen from one
I um, m
Internet foru bulletin board system or commu uch book) user to another user on
unity sites (su as Faceb o
the same for
t rum. 6
A o
Audio/video conferencing
A
Audio and v encing is a te
video confere elecommuni
ications tech
hnology whe two or mo locations
ere ore s
i h er ay d/or
interact with one anothe via two-wa audio and video tra usly.
ansmissions simultaneou
Commentinng
se ader to either the author o the conten or to other who have
A comment is a respons from a rea r of nt rs
c on
commented previously o the same content.
T
Tagging
on-hierarchic keyword or term assi
A tag is a no cal d igned to a pi
iece of inform h rnet
mation (such as an Inter
b
bookmark, d e,
digital image or comput file). This kind of me
ter s s n
etadata helps describe an item and allows
i nd b
it to be foun again by browsing or searching. T Tags are chos informal and perso
sen lly e
onally by the
i or viewer, depen
item's creato or by its v nding on the system. On a website in which man users tag
e n n ny
m , ion
many items, this collecti of tags bbecomes a fo olksonomy.
T s ed
Tagging was popularize by website associated with Web 2.0 and is an important f
es d 2 n feature of many
Web 2.0 services. 7
W
P
Polling
way
A poll is a w to get an m d n
nswers to questions from and to build interaction with other users of the
social netwo ce.
orking servic
4
dia.org/wiki/Vlog
http://en.wikiped
5
dia.org/wiki/Messa
http://en.wikiped age_board
6
dia.org/wiki/Privat
http://en.wikiped te_messaging
7
dia.org/wiki/Tag_(
http://en.wikiped (metadata)
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M
Media shar ring (video, photo, audi io)
M ng
Media sharin services o offer individ
duals or grou the possi
ups ibility to upload, comme on and sh
ent hare
v ures dio h the
videos, pictu and aud files with the rest of t world.
P
Profile sharring
P ing
Profile shari is the me echanism wh individu state the interests b completin an online
here uals eir by ng
p s ossible for us to get in touch with like-minded people.
profile. This makes it po sers n d
Social gamiing
ng ly playing game as a way of social inte
Social gamin commonl refers to p es opposed to
eraction, as o
p mes de,
playing gam in solitud like some card games (solitaire) a the single-player mo of many
e s and ode y
video games 8
v s.
kmarking
Social book
marking is a method for Internet use to store, organize, sea
Social bookm r ers o anage
arch, and ma
bookmarks o web pages on the Inte
b of ernet with the help of meetadata. 9
Content agg gregation
C
Content agggregation is a term depict
ting the aggr
regating of syndicated w content such as news
s web s s
h logs and upl
headlines, bl os e r ing.
loaded video in a single location for easy viewi
8
dia.org/wiki/Social
http://en.wikiped l_gaming
9
dia.org/wiki/Social
http://en.wikiped l_bookmarking
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T ng
The followin matrix sh
hows the rela
ation betwee these func
en nd rent
ctionalities an the differ content
m nt nd
managemen services an third party tools inclu
y m n h
uding those mentioned in the follow section with
e
examples.
Profile sharing
Media sharing
Social gaming
bookmarking
Conferencing
Commenting
Auioo/video
aggregation
messaging
Personal
Tagging
Content
Polling
Forum
Social
Wiki
Vlog
Blog
CMSs
Drupal
D e c c c e c c e c c d d c
M
MediaWiki i c e c c e c
LDU
L c c c c c c c c c
Typo3
T e c c c e e e e e c e
Wordpress
W e c c e e c c e e e c
Moodle
M c c c c c c c c c
3
3rd party so rking sites
ocial networ
LinkedIn
L x
Facebook
F x x x x x
N
Netlog x x x x x x
Netvibes
N x
Delicious
D x
Flickr
F x x x
YouTube
Y x x x x x
Google Video x x x x x
Second Lifee x
BSCW
B x x x
T
Twitter x x
N
Ning x x x x x x
Plaxo
P x
Google x x x
Groups
Skype x x
o
ooVoo x x
Rock You
R x
iTunes U
i x
M
Myngle x x
L
LEGEND
e
c : available in core
e : possible via additional e dules
extensions / mod
d : requires development ef ffort
service
x : offered s
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E s in
Examples of Social Networking Tools i Use
I on ral
In this sectio we will provide sever examples of social ne
s ools th
etworking to used wit target user rs
hose who wil take part in SoRuraLL It includes examples based on the experiences of
similar to th ll n L.
t ct ples u n
the partners in the projec as well as other examp of the use of social networking generally in
e nd a her
education an training as well in oth related ar reas. Many o the experi
of iences quote are Europe
ed ean
a
and most ex xamples are rrelated to wo carried o by one of the SoRura partners. Practically all
ork out f aLL y
t es e
the example quoted are on-going ac ctivities.
S ith rs
Sample 1: Use of Wo rdPress wi teacher in Spain
W
WordPress ( (http://wordppress.org/) is an Open So
s rm
ource platfor for web p a
publishing and blogs. It is
b P QL
built on PHP and MySQ (i.e. it is a cross-platf form applicat r
tion) and licensed under the GPL. It ts
l WordPress (V
latest stable version is W Version 2.7.1 It has be designed as a persona publishing
1). een d al g
system, but can be used for simple c n us
collaboration too. Users can register for free, thu creating th heir
o nd
own blog an post mess sages and com mments. Wo ordPress pro es s
ovides theme and allows templates
e customizing the blog inte
editing for c ovides taggin possibiliti and is sea
erface. It pro ng ies archable by
nes. ress
search-engin WordPr has a plu ug-in architeecture and cu ins
ustom plug-i can be de eveloped to
e unctionality.
extend its fu
Within the Rural Wings project, 20 teachers from the Spanish network o rural scho are using a
W R m of ools g
W b er ocal
Wordpress blog, in orde to share lo tradition and local activities car
ns a rried out in t s.
their schools A
h f on
high level of participatio can be no 6 ber
oticed (i.e. 86 posts have been listed since Octob 2008 - the e
d mplementati
date of the im ion). Many pposts include videos and pictures. Te
e d eachers cons sider it as easy to
u hey our and
use, although initially th needed o support a training. The Blog has become th main he
c
communicat m
tion platform of the netw
work, and a p ow
public windo for its act l
tivities. To see this tool in
a :
action, visit: URL: http:/ alvirtual.wor
//escuelarura m/
rdpress.com
S NETWORK Community for Proje Practiti
Sample 2: CIBERA N y ect ioners
T A RK
The CIBERA NETWOR set of ser open source web environ
rvices is an o p
nment set up to support
c n n
collaboration between networks of o n
organizations engaged in common pr e
roject work linked to the
w ece.
work of RACTI in Gree Based on PHP/MYS n SQL this netw rts
work suppor the follow s;
wing services a
p
product cata ce
alogue servic (to facilita the excha
ate ange and shaaring of information on e experiences,,
p
products, toools), an e-he
elpdesk servi to provid operationa support to the net, a ca
ice de al o ataloguing
service (to share basic innformation bbetween all o ns ng
organization participatin in the net twork), a
l
learning mat g
terial sharing tool to pro
ovide inform e
mation about existing e-leearning mate erials and an
i l g d For
intranet tool (including a file sharing service and a forum). F more inf formation, seee:
h
http://www.ciberanetwo ork.net
S rtal with Multigrade Teachers i Greece
Sample 3: Use of Por M in
T D
The NEMED portal (htt tp://www.nem
med-networ 05 grade school
rk.org/) was set up in 200 for multig l
t
teachers in G or on
Greece which allowed fo the creatio of a comm munity of practice for muultigrade
t is ing
teachers. It i a networki webspac facilitating communic
ce g cation and ex aring of
xchange, sha
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i
information and conduct arch, as well as provision of professi
ting of resea n ional developpment and
support oppo T ix ich ond x
ortunities. The portal is divided in si areas, whi correspo to the six working
g he
groups of th network: I ICT for mult tigrade schoo classroo managem in multi
ols; om ment ols;
igrade schoo
tures, and the multigrade school; lear
society, cult e e s
rning modes in the multi room;
igrade classr
e
educational resources de evelopment for the multi igrade schoo policies f multigrad education.
ol; for de
T
This portal p vely
provides a liv virtual space of stru uctured exchhange between network p partners,
participating teachers an schools, as well as an other users interested in multigrad education.
p g nd a ny de
S unes U by O
Sample 4: Use of iTu ersity UK
Open Unive
T
The Open U University in the UK has set up a free podcasting service usin the iTune U service, see
e g ng es
h
http://www.open.ac.uk/i e
itunes/. Here you can fin lectures fr
nd ble tional downl
reely availab as educat loads
i ubjects. This service, set upon 2007, is used by several differ universities now an
in various su s t , s rent nd
p ices in the fu
plans to expand its servi uture.
S t n
Sample 5: Use of Mo odle with teachers in Spain
M
Moodle (http p://moodle.oorg/) is an Open Source p platform for e-learning [
r [note: it mig be also ca
ght alled
C
Course Man nagement Sy ),
ystem (CMS) Learning M Management System (LM or Virt Learning
t MS), tual g
E nt
Environmen (VLE)]. It is PhP based and multi- s re
-platform. Its current cor version is 1.9.4 and
r P n,
requires PHP installation and a data abase (MySQ Postgres MSSQL o Oracle). T
QL, s, or Themes and
l
language packages are a oad. ular
available for free downlo Moodle has a modu architect ture and cust tom
m n ped
modules can be develop and contr ributed. Som of these, however, are not reviewed, thus mig
me h e ght
i uality, stabili and secur issues. M
introduce qu ity rity Moodle prov set
vides a rich s of functioonalities for
supporting e ourses and re
e-learning co ties, includin course cre
elated activit ng eation and ad dministration,
c
calendars, qu ,
uizzes, chat, etc.
A moodle pl sed
latform is us within R project in or
Rural Wings p rder to share training resources with 55
t m sh o
teachers from the Spanis network of rural scho ools. It enables to provide them tutor rials,
p ns l sed
presentation and useful links related to ICT bas teaching methodolog past, the Moo
gies. In the p odle
w ed
was also use to share d nd
documents an videos rel lated to the activities car
a rried out wit work,
thin the netw
b
but teachers have then p h
preferred the WordPress Blog, which they consid re
dered as mor easy to us inse
us fact, s d
a spontaneou way. In fa teachers experienced some diffic pload docum
culties to up ments and
u the
understand t Moodle i hus,
interface. Th from ou experience Moodle se
ur e, eems to cons d
stitute a good
t ide lay it de s
tool to provi and displ resources, although i can includ difficulties for non exp perienced
p ir t. s on,
participants to bring thei own input To see this tool in actio visit: UR RL:
h
http://campuusvirtual.ub.edu/course/vview.php?id=2512
S ne
Sample 6: e-Magazin
T
This open so ource web en nvironment with an asso
w ystem created by RACTI
ociated administration sy d I
a
allows an ad ed ion ws eral es
dministrator put structure informati about new into seve categorie and then
r sers eir
registered us receive customized newsletters based on the specific i s. by
interest areas It is used b a
l
local admini ory ses te
istration in a rural territo which us it to creat semi-personalised new wsletters for
d get ues
different targ users on various issu e.g. fund mmes, fairs, p
ding program possible colllaborations,
l F
legislation. For more inf formation, se http://ww
ee: gr/main.php?
ww.e-ionia.g ?menu=busin ness
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S cations pla tform with forum and wiki for S
Sample 7: Communic d Students
T
The Hogeschool van Am U f
msterdam, University of Applied Sci mmunity port
iences have set up a com tal
c
called Yond ps://www.yon
ders.net (http which is inten
nders.net) w port
nded to supp students taking part in an
i l ment
international exchange, work placem or study abroad. It provides a p
y p place where s n
students can
p t a o
prepare for their study abroad and to exchange eexperiences w
while abroad or after the have com
d ey me
b ers with , d h
back. Yonde provides a platform w forums, groups and wikis which is free for any student to
j
join.
S ogle Group with tea chers in Sp
Sample 8: Use of Goo ps pain
G ups
Google Grou (http://g le.com/) is a free service provided by Google. It allows users
groups.googl y s
w on t to ns. her
with commo interests to engage int discussion This can be done eith through e e-mail or
t
through the Google Groups web inteerface. A Gr ed , et level
roup is create by a user, who can se its access l
c ed), ng ers’ nd
(from Public to Restricte regulatin other use access an activities. In the less restrictive m mode
u ost s,
users can po messages reply and/o forward m
or d
messages and even rate p ts.
previous post RSS is
supported.
W al
Within Rura Wings pro chers from th Spanish network of ru schools are
oject, 61 teac he n ural
c
communicat ting through a Google gr st mmunicate in a spontaneous
roup. The lis is used in order to com n
w ers heir
way. Teache express th doubts, ideas, probl ork s
lems related to the netwo activities and to teacching
p More than 200 messages have been s since Se
practices. M 00 s sent eptember 20 og es
007. If the blo constitute an
e res os, gle the y
easy way to share pictur and video the Goog group is t best way to easily co ommunicate
w
within the network.
S d Information System
Sample 9: GIS Based Tourism I n
T pen G
This is an op source GIS system w working over mobile phoones, presen m
nting tourism and culturee
i b
information over maps based on the location of the user. Cre eated by RA tended as a w
ACTI it is int way
t
to suggest points of geog terest to com
graphical int f m
mmunities of users and allows tourism administra ation
b
bodies to preesent inform
mation and to
ourists to loc informat
cate ore
tion. For mo informati ion, see:
h cti.gr/mobile
http://athos.c e_gis/mobilee/
S ouTube by the US Alz
Sample 10 : Use of Yo sociation
zheimer Ass
T
This Associa t Y or
ation has set up its own educational channel on YouTube fo their educa os
ational video
w w with
which is now very well populated w their own material as well as wit tness viewpooints and related
v
videos and m ee
materials. Se http://www w.youtube.c com/user/acti tors
ionalz. Visit can com mment on vid deos,
a wn
add their ow and it con nerally to the creation of support and other types of communities
ntributes gen e d
r and ment
related to the treatment a managem of pati ng
ients sufferin from Alzh heimer’s disease.
S kype with T
Sample 11 : Use of Sk n
Teachers in Spain
Skype (http:://www.skyp wnload softw that allow chats and calls over t
pe.com/) is a free to dow ware ws d the
I rsonal registr
Internet. Per ration is requ
uired. Chats, calls and video-calls to other Skyp users is fre
v o pe ee,
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w to o hones is for a fee. It allow file transfer, it is mul
while calls t landlines or mobile ph ws lti-language and
m
multi-platforrm.
R ish use n
Rural school’s teachers of the Spani network sometimes u Skype in order to org ganize inter-
schools vide es. of ung and
eoconference In some o them, you students participate a are able to directly
i h ol
interact with other schoo peers with activities organised b the teache To see a video relate to
hin s by ers. ed
a Skype sess n ls:
sion between two school http://nue nosidentifica
estroentornon a.blogspot.com/
S Manageme nt System
Sample 12 : Content M
T pen p nt ent CTI
This is an op source portal conten manageme system used by RAC allowing for the g
a
administration and effec ctive present
tation of digi content (to be used f tourism p
ital ( for: tal
portals, digit
l namic projec sites etc). It is aimed a those colla
libraries, dyn ct at tal
aborating to build a port and regul larly
u
update its co f
ontents. For examples of portals buil in this way see: http:/
ld y, //www.rome e-interreg.nett,
h and
http://www.siproci.net a http://ww ww.e-ionia.g gr
S ity s ols
Sample 13 : Communi services for Schoo worldw ide
T s b
The Schools United web site offers schools and staff opport hare onal
tunities to sh educatio resource es
a
and experien ls r nd
nces. School from over 50 countries have now registered an it is available in 5
d nguages. It hosts blogs an fora as w as provid
different lan nd well eo r
ding a place to share vide and other
m
multimedia materials. ht ttp://www.th ited.com/com
heschoolsuni mmunity/
S oVoo with T
Sample 14 : Use of oo n
Teachers in Spain
O
Oovoo (httpp://www.oov or ls u each
voo.com/) is a free tool fo video call that allows up to six users to see e
o ty p
others with a high-qualit video. It provides, bet ies, t,
tween other functionaliti text chat video/voic ce
r w alls,
recording, web-video ca video ch hat-rooms, fi transfer. ooVoo is cro
ile o m
oss-platform and
m ge ,
multilanguag software, but is not OOpen Source.
T ls o anize a
Teachers of the Spanish network of rural school use Oovoo when they want to orga
v en
videoconference betwee them. It en eting.
nables them to have a 6 persons mee
S lickr by Re Cross
Sample 15 : Use of Fl ed
T r
The American Red cross uses Flickr to share im d k his
mages related to the work they do. Th includes
ted
subject relat images w ed
which are use for trainin purposes, resources re
ng , e he
elated to the history of th
o n u chival purpo and this service also helps to generate
organisation which are useful for arc oses o
c
community and the red C ork
Cross netwo overall. S http://ww
See ww.flickr.coom/groups/am mericanredcr ross/
S ouTube wit Teachers in Spain
Sample 16 : Use of Yo th s
Y
YouTube (h http://www.y youtube.com is a video sharing web
m/) bsite where u pload, view a
users can up and
share video clips. The pllatform dispplays a wide variety of usser-generated video cont ng
tent, includin
m , nd
movie clips, TV clips, an music vid deos, as well as amateur content suc as video b
r ch blogging and d
al Most
short origina videos. M of the co ontent on YoouTube has b ed
been uploade by individ duals.
U d w
Unregistered users can watch the vid deos, while r
registered us are perm
sers mitted to upload an unlimmited
n
number of v e ists
videos, create their playli and favo ment
orites, comm and vote e.
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W al
Within Rura Wings pro oject, some o the teachers of the Spa
of rk
anish networ of rural sc sing
chools are us
Y are
YouTube in order to sha videos, p c n ols.
presenting the activities carried out in their schoo It constittutes
a y videos and to share the re
an easy way to upload v o elated link. To see an exa
T deo e
ample of vid available at:
h
http://www.youtube.comm/watch?v=u ugBhwlHEg ge4&eurl=htt ruralvirtual.w
tp://escuelar wordpress.coom/p
a
age/6/
S mental Hea lth Surveil
Sample 17 : Environm ironment
llance Envi
Set up by RA s
ACTI, this is an open so nvironment s up to assi researche policy
ource web en set ist ers,
m
makers and the general p are ntal
public to sha historical data about environmen and epid demiological
factors meas nd w and ace
surements an to enable them to view statistics a alerts. A web interfa is provid ded
for users thr le nd r ntal
rough which they are abl to form an send their environmen queries, which the
server analyyzes and proc cesses, and w
which then s
sends back re application provides all t
esults. This a p the
n ools
necessary to for the a on
administratio of the systtem. There are the neces
a es he
ssary feature that give th
a or rt he For
administrato the possibility to inser data into th system. F more info ormation, seee:
h a.westgate.gr
http://thaleia r/enhance/pa eillance.htm
age_en/surve m
S Community for Langua Learni ng
Sample 18 : Online C f age
M
Myngle is a global languuage market tplace, where teachers an students f
e nd r are
from all over the world a
i is udents and t
invited to join. Myngle i free for stu ign
teachers to si up and p o
provides an online
e t
environment for live inddividual and group lesson for basica any lang
ns ally vel
guage and lev from any y
t her. a rket ge, y
type of teach Myngle is an open and free mar exchang where any skilled teacher can sell l
l
language les elated materi
ssons (and re ials) to prosp ents. For mo informati see
pective stude ore ion
h
http://www.myngle.com m
S ock ith rs
Sample 19 : Use of Ro You wi Teacher in Spain
R
Rock You (hhttp://www.r rockyou.com is a provid of free w
m) der m
widgets for some of the most popularr
orking web s
social netwo sites (i.e. facebook, mysp riendfinder, etc.). Servic include
pace, HI5, fr ces
SuperWall, HHugMe, Bir ,
rthdayCards, etc. in Faceebook; SlideShow, UploadFoto, etc. in MySpace e.
T ny
The compan offers cus stomized bra dvertising op
anding and ad ok
pportunities on Faceboo and can
d ications acro any socia networks.
deploy appli oss al
T he
Teachers and pupils in th Rural Wi h se
ings Spanish network us Rockyou w web-based slideshow too inol
o ate
order to crea and edit v ey n.
videos from pictures the have taken The interf face is quite simple,
i v design nice v
intuitive, and it results very easy to d d t The
videos with personalized titles and transitions. T
v hen d
video can th be shared in social so h ok o
oftware such as Faceboo and blogs. Examples of Rockyou
v b
videos can be found in h aruralvirtual
http://escuela l.wordpress.ccom/
S Westminster University
Sample 20 : Use of a Social Net work at We y
T
The system put in place by this univ d rovides a ran of featur typically
versity called Connect pr nge res
a with 0
associated w Web 2.0 systems inc cluding personal and com ogs, ,
mmunity blo tagging, private and d
p
public comm munities, perrsonal and co
ommunity fi storage an social net
ile nd tworking cappability. Its
p o k ts at
purpose is to create a social network for student and staff a the Univer tminster - a
rsity of West
d
democratic s e
space where they can blo share file and video meet frien and talk about life an
og, es os, nds nd
ed to he es
studies. It is also intende as a way t combat th difficultie faced by students in de eveloping a
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sense of com oss ution based w
mmunity acro an institu sy ltiple physical
within a bus metropolis across mul
/connect.wm
sites. https:// min.ac.uk/
S oogle Vide with Tea
Sample 21 : Use of Go eo pain
achers in Sp
G eo
Google Vide (http://vid deo.google.c com/) is a fre video shar
ee e video search
ring website and also a v h
e m t
engine from Google that allows any yone with a g google accou to upload video clips to Google's
unt d s s
w
web servers as well as m wn
make their ow media av ered
vailable free of charge; some videos are also offe
ogle
for sale through the Goo Video S e e f
Store. Google Video is used by some teachers of the Spanish h
n
network of r s eb e
rural schools in order to upload videos on the we and share the related link. Examp ofple
v able
video availa at: http:/ //video.goog play?docid=7
gle.es/videop 7109899758 8910631376
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Success Factors
M user n art rk
Measuring u use and satisfaction will form an integral pa of the wor of the SoR RuraLL proj ject
a
and so the su rs a ve e
uccess factor or criteria that we hav identified are closely linked to the evaluation
o t.
objectives of the project According to the propo ject he
osal, the proj aims to “evaluate th potential o of
social netwo ms
orking tools and platform for the all the
leviation of t socioeco onomic disad dvantage of r rural
c ough the enhancement of their lifelon learning o
citizens thro f ng ties”. This le
opportunities and activit eads
u nclusion that we will des
us to the con t scribe and an r ess
nalyze what we consider to be succe factors in n
t hich
terms of the extent to wh users ne t e ng
eeds are met through the use of social networkin tools and the
w ch s
way in whic these tools broadly all leviate the va
arious differ types of disadvantag faced by
rent f ges
r rs.
rural learner
T r ctors need to correspond to/address m
To be more specific, our success fac o d more or less the followin
ng:
• ent
The exte to which the use of so ocial networ rking tools a value or have an im
add r mpact on the e
various types of leaarning proce e sers o
esses that the targeted us undergo in the fores This
seen trials. T
includes formal and informal lea g
arning taking place in schools, in training centres and in
res
telecentr in the var ios d the
rious scenari described earlier in t chapter d dealing with user needs, e.g.
teachers engaged in informal lea rt
arning as par of their eff ance their ped
forts to enha dagogical sk kills,
farmers accessing in nd
nformation an remote re esources to iincrease their agro-econo omic skills,
young pe enhancing on
eople engaged in skills e w ing
nline courses with a view to increasi their
employa ability.
• ent
The exte to which social netwo or
orking tools add value o have an i he
impact on th notion of f
inclusion and empo hat ted
owerment th the target users und als.
dergo in the foreseen tria This
o rs
includes the extent to which user develop sp ills
pecific e-ski and comp e
petences, the extent to
which co ommunities of practice e the o al ng
emerge and t extent to which socia networkin tools allow for w
the creat p within the ta
tion of new partnership w argeted comm d w
munities and the wider world.
• ent
The exte to which social netwo or
orking tools add value o have an i impact on in and
nstitutional a
pedagog tion and chan specifica within th targeted u organisa
gical innovat nge ally he user ations. This
on ing and
includes the schools taking part, the educatio and traini centres a the telecentres as we as ell
ous
the vario organisat ked
tions which they are link to and su al
upported by include loca administra ative
bodies and others.
• The exte to which social netwo
ent or
orking tools add value o have an i impact on in ncreasing us sers’
awareness of any eth hical, moral, legal and hu heir
uman security issues arising from th use of su uch
order to mak them mor informed, secure and aware users of online ser
tools in o ke re a rvices of all
types.
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U rkshops in May
User Wor
E r
Each partner will be run
nning user workshops du
uring the Apr
ril/May perio The purp
od. e
pose of these
w i
workshops is manifold.
• de n ous
to provid a general introduction to the vario types of social netwo tions
orking tools and applicat
in comm use and t talk about their value in terms of education an training,
mon to t nd
• out get
to find o from targ users wha specific fu
at st d
unctionalities are of mos interest and most close ely
heir ed
match th identifie needs as d described ear fy s
rlier as well as to identify what types of social
ing ey dy
networki tools the are alread using, and d
• de
to provid an opporttunity for eac partner to begin the practical arra
ch o p angements ne ecessary for the
ich
trial whi will begin in October r.
P
Planning
T ng ws
The followin table show when the various SoR
e rkshops are p
RuraLL wor ake
planned to ta place:
P
Partner ed
Users targete Country shop date and
User Works
location
RA.CTI
R ed
Those targete by the Tele ed
ecenter locate in ece
Gree 09
15 May 200 in the
the Greek Mu f
unicipality of Dymi and D
Telecenter Dymi
local farmers and local stud
specifically l dents.
EA
E d
Teachers and pupils at 4 mmultigrade rurral ece
Gree ocation to be
Date and lo
ls
Greek school and the Lab ter
boratory Cent of confirmed
Natural Sciennces in Komo ing
otini, addressi
the needs of secondary edducation teachhers,
n emistry, biolo
specialised in physics, che ogy,
and geology. .
UB
U d rural schools i
Teachers and pupils at 6 r in in
Spai ocation to be
Date and lo
al Spain.
different rura regions of S confirmed
ATiT
A chool teacher in
Primary and Secondary Sc rs Irela
and 7 May 2009 in the Clare
9 e
reland
East Clare, Ir C s
Education Centre, Ennis
AuB
A m
Teachers from Mittelhessiischer Germ
many 11 May 200 in the MBV
09 V
Bildungsverbband e.V. (MB ny,
BV), German as dagogy and
Central Ped
rs ients, especia
disseminator and their cli ally entre, Marbur
Training Ce rg,
the unemployyed.
PBF
P ed ba
Those targete by the Rab Wyzna Pola
and ocation to be
Date and lo
ocated in the R
Telecenter lo Raba Wyzna confirmed
y nd
Municipality of Poland an specificallyy
students and young graduates, elderly
people and m he
members of th local
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on.
administratio
RDU
R ed
Those targete by the Stam mbolovo garia
Bulg ocation to be
Date and lo
n
Telecentre in the South Ea f
astern part of confirmed
luding young people (inclu
Bulgaria incl uding
pupils), agric
local school p cultural produucers
trepreneurs.
and local ent
M ogy
Methodolo
A ach p
Although ea workshop will take a somewhat d different for as approp
rm e e
priate for the partner, the
t cific requirements for th user trial, they will eac contain th
target users, the context and the spec he ch he
following ellements:
• Presenta he
ation about th types of s social networking softwa being use in educati and train
are ed ion ning
ng
describin several ex m
xamples from Europe an elsewhere this will in
nd e, nclude a pres the
sentation of t
matrix p lier
provided earl identifying the various functiona ble
alities possib from a ge eneric point of
d hem
view and then link th to the fa familiar serviices and tool available w an addi
ls with to
itional scan t
any es et
include a new tools or service suggested by the targe users them mselves.
• ion se rt t
Discussi with thos taking par to find out what types of social networking too they are ols
already u alue ools
using and the kinds of va these to offer as well as the t re
tools they ar aware of b but
hey ot had
which th might no yet have h a chance to try out.
• Discussi with thos taking par to see wha kinds of needs they ca identify th might be met
ion se rt at an hat
by the us of one or more of thes types of tool, e.g. wou the avail
se se uld ducation rela
lability of ed ated
on ed of w he
videos o a dedicate YouTube channel be o interest, what about th use of a social
bookmar rking web se r aring, and di
ervice like del.icio.us for storing, sha w
iscovering web bookmar rks?
or flickr for sharing photos?
e e er ntified in the Chapter of this report
In concrete terms we will use the lists of use needs iden e
with l get n ts
dealing w user needs and will ask the targ groups in question to rank the list given for each
ise eeds with eac group. Th short-list will
specific group. This will enable us to prioriti users’ ne ch his
to
be used t build the methodology through w he
which we will measure th extent to w which these
ere
needs we met during the pilot trials.
• ion e
Discussi about the user trials p planned for October 200 – June 2010 to includ what these
09 de e
trials might include, initial sugge activities and to reach agr
estions for a d reement amo ongst those
taking pa as the exact direction these trials will take inc
art n cluding poss ment
sible recruitm and
l F T
practical planning. For the ATiT schools tria for examp this will i
al ple include reach ion
hing a decisi
xact the d t ed
on the ex tools to be used in t trials and recruitment of intereste teachers.
P ner,
Project partn Ellinoge ermaniki Ag
gogi (EA) are planning to make avail
e o led ology
lable a detail methodo
orkshops at th beginning of April 20 which w be used b all partne in their
for these wo he g 009 will by ers
p
preparation work.
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ng ks
Concludin Remark
I ly at f
It is generall agreed tha the use of social networking tools in rapidly in f
ncreasing in all walks of life
a s
according as citizens bec come more f familiar with ICT tools and as servic and netw
h a ces works increas se
a e. me
and improve In the sam way as mo obile telepho has now become ubi
ony w s cted
iquitous, it is to be expec
t of tworking fac
that the use of all types o social net cilities and to will soo become th ‘norm’, in the
ools on he n
w i
workplace, in the home and in the place of learn er chool, a colle or a train
ning, whethe that is a sc ege ning
c
centre.
R ers
Rural learne face parti ems
icular proble when it comes to acc most
cessing the m approp priate and
e arning oppor
effective lea able o oo
rtunities suita to their needs due to their relative isolation and an all to
c ck e
common lac of suitable learning re d
esources and facilities.
I rural learner into contac with socia networkin tools and i testing ou various
In bringing r rs ct al ng in ut
ated
scenarios in a set of rela and yet s somewhat un eds Europe, part
nique test-be in different parts of E tners
i
in the SoRurraLL Consor e ill d
rtium are confident that considerable insights wi be gained which can
t m hat
together form a somewh unique bo of evide
ody ies
ence and seri of best pr d
ractices that can be used by
o ested in exploiting such t
others intere port g
tools to supp learning in rural com mmunities.
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A ion chnologies and Selec
Annex 1: Presentati of Tec s
cted Tools
T , y
This Annex, prepared by Project Co o-ordinator R
RACTI conta the outc
ains comes of a st tudy into
p
possible tech nd e
hnologies an tools to be used durin the SoRur
ng raLL trials ca y
arried out by RACTI dur ring
t roject which took place i parallel w the prepa
the first phases of the pr in with aration of De eliverable 3.1.
T le ng
The rational for carryin out this st relatively ear stage was that in orde for the
tudy at this r rly er
p b
partners to be able to preesent concre ideas to w
ete workshop pa bout what the proposed
articipants ab e
SoRuraLL L orld
Learning Wo might co e
ontain, there was a need to conduct f from the beg ginning an
e
extensive suurvey on tech nd
hnologies an tools in or are
rder to prepa a set of fu unctional specifications to
b d
be presented in the forthhcoming wor rkshops. Thi links direc to Task 5 which st
is ctly 5.1 tates that the
c w d
consortium will use the work carried out under T e s
Task 3.1, the workshops carried out in Task 3.2 and
t n ally
the study on tools to fina select th technolog that will be used in t creation o the SoRur
he gies the of rall
L
Learning World.
TATION OF TECHNOL
1. PRESENT F ND ECTED TOOLS FOR EACH ONE OF
LOGIES AN OF SELE E
T
THEM
A Sharing
A. Video S
V ng w
Video sharin refers to websites or s
software wh users can distribute t
here n their video c
clips.
F o
Flash Video
h l.org/project
http://drupal t/flashvideo
T
Technology: P QL, G
PHP, MySQ FFMPEG
E evel:
Expertise Le A dium
As user: med high
As developer: h
F o
Flash Video is a compl olution that expands Dr
lete video so ad ies
rupal's uploa capabiliti to allow web
d and eo
developers a users to upload vide files, auto e he
omatically convert those videos to th popular F Flash
d o ode ng ple t
format, and then embed their video in any no type usin the simp [video] tag. This mo odule
a e
allows more than one v video to be attached to any node, and then referenced thr se
rough the us of
p passed to the tag [video It also inc
parameters p o]. cludes an au
utomatic con video files to the
nversion of v o
F MPEG techno
Flash format using FFM ology.
P n
PhpMotion
h otion.com/
http://phpmo
T
Technology: P QL, G
PHP, MySQ FFMPEG
E evel:
Expertise Le A h
As user: high high
As developer: h
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P
PHPmotion Media Shar P
ring CMS - PHPmotion i a free vide sharing so
is eo t pport
oftware that also has sup
pes a
for other typ of media such as audio/mp3 sha C m a
aring. The Content Managent System or (media cms
a you e
application) will allow y to create and run yo very own Video Sha
our n e,
aring website Music Sha aring
e te.
Site, Picture Sharing Sit
res:
Some featur
• Easy uploading of Videos directly from the user com
y o d m mputer
• Supp for many formats in
port y ncluding (mp avi, divx and more)
pg,
• View upload pro
w appens
ocess as it ha
• Edit video at any ge
ytime, chang the title, d nd
description an tags
• Crea a new gro for even more video sharing
ate oup n
• Mem lks
mbers can tal together u oup
using the gro commen nts
• Mem mber Profile
• Mess saging
• Frien nds
• Com mments
•
D http://www.p
Demo site: h phpmotion.n net/
J Media Player 4.3
JW FLV M r
h ers/jw-flv-pla
http://www.longtailvideo.com/playe ayer/
T
Technology: J F
JavaScript, FFMPEG
E evel:
Expertise Le A w
As user: low high
As developer: h
T V ular
The JW FLV Player is the Internet’s most popu and flex upports play
xible media player. It su yback
o mat yer
of any form the Adobe Flash Play can hand (FLV, M
dle MP4, MP3, A AAC, JPG, P F).
PNG and GIF It
a ts
also support RTMP, H HTTP, live st
treaming, va
arious playlis formats, a wide rang of settings and
sts ge s
a e A
an extensive javascript API.
T ng
The skinnin functiona ality allows completely customizat
y s chitecture al
tion and its plugin arc llows
i w latforms and services.
integration with other pl d
B st
B. Podcas
s deo media files which are dis
A podcast is a series of audio or vid digital m w stributed ove the Internet by
er
syndicated download, t eb o
through We feeds, to portable m media players and pers sonal compu uters.
T nt be
Though the same conten may also b made ava irect download or stream
ailable by di ast
ming, a podca is
d st tal
distinguished from mos other digit media fo s be ed
ormats by its ability to b syndicated, subscribe to,
a
and downloa aded automa n nt
atically when new conten is added.
P
Podcast Generator
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h eforge.net/
http://podcastgen.source
T
Technology: P
PHP
E evel:
Expertise Le A w
As user: Low medium
As developer: m
P
Podcast Gennerator is a f
free web bas podcast p
sed s n
publishing script written in PHP: uppload media files
o) de on
(audio-video via a web form along with episod informatio and autom matically create podcast w
w3c-
c eed g
compliant fe including iTunes spe ecific tags. It also feature a compreh
t es b
hensive web administrat tion.
F vers
Free Receiv
J ver uicereceiver.sourceforge.
Juice receiv (http://ju .net)
J hnically a "M
Juice is tech Media Aggre
egator," a pro
ogram that allows you to select and download a
a d audio
nywhere on t Internet to your desk
files from an the ktop.
J s s
Juice makes the process easy by he elping you seelect audio files from am
f mong the tho audio
ousands of a
nd
sources on the web an download ding those f r ed
files to your computer. Once you select a fee or
l w es
location, it will download those file automatic fy
cally at times you specif and have the files waaiting
y ter, d
for you on your comput so you don't have to spend a lot of time ma
o t cting and wa
anually selec aiting
ads. n s io g
for downloa You can play your selected audi files using iTunes or other "jukeb re,
box" softwar or
l n od
load them on to your iPo or other p ital u
portable digi media player to play anytime you want.
l
C. Virtual Worlds
world is a co
A virtual w ed
omputer-base simulated environme intended for its user to inhabit and
d ent d rs t
i
interact via avatars. Th s ly
hese avatars are usuall depicted as textual, two-dimens hree-
sional, or th
d l
dimensional graphical representati orms are po
ions, although other fo ditory and t
ossible (aud touch
or
sensations fo example). .
lator
OpenSimul
h imulator.org
http://opensi g
T
Technology: A or Unix platform
Available fo Windows and Linux/U ms
E evel:
Expertise Le A gh
As user: Hig High
As developer: H
O
OpenSimula D on
ator is a 3D Applicatio Server. I can be us to creat a 3D Vir
It sed te ,
rtual World, and
i cilities for cr
includes fac reating custo avatars, c
om h he ment, building 3D
chatting with others in th environm
c
content in wworld, and creating com mplex 3D a applications in world. OpenSimula so
ator can als be
e a m e ore 3D
extended via loadable modules or web service interfaces to build mo custom 3 Applicat tions.
O ator B
OpenSimula is released under a BSD License e.
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I connect to th virtual wo you may use the abo clients:
In order to c he orld y ove
• lXtend (http:
Real ://opensimul ki/RealXtend
lator.org/wik d)
• den o nt condlife.com
Lind Client – Second life official clien (http://sec m)
• Open tp://openview
nViewer (htt wer.org/)
R
RealXtend
h rg/
http://www.realxtend.or
T
Technology: A or Unix platform
Available fo Windows and Linux/U ms
E evel:
Expertise Le A gh
As user: Hig High
As developer: H
T end s
The RealXte server is an open so nse)
ource server (BSD licen with wh n
hich you can make your own
v e r
virtual worlds available to a larger audience. T server h a sample virtual wo that you can
The has e orld u
u c our
utilize as it is or you can modify it to suit yo needs. R RealXtend a free, high-qu
also offers f uality
c
content for your own w alXtend miss
worlds. Rea peed up the developme of the global
sion is to sp e ent
d f
standardized 3D-web of virtual wo orlds by mak y to ,
king the best technology available t everyone, and
e e
entirely free of charge.
I c he
In order to connect to th virtual w
world you ma use the R
ay lient (Windo 2K/XP/V
RealXtend cl ows Vista
Support onlyy).
D s
D. Serious games
A serious ga m efer
ame is a term used to re to a soft rdware appli
ftware or har ication developed with ggame
t
technology and game d design princiiples for a p
primary purp han
pose other th pure en .
ntertainment. The
Serious adje enerally app
ective is ge pended to r ies
refer to products used by industri like defe fense,
e s
education, scientific expploration, he
ealth care, e
emergency m management, city planni ering,
ing, enginee
r d
religion, and politics.
F e
Food Force
h com/
http://www.food-force.c
T
Technology: A or atforms
Available fo Windows and Mac pla
E evel:
Expertise Le A gh
As user: Hig Low
As developer: L
F
Food Force is an Educ me
cational gam published by the U ns
United Nation World F Food Programme
(WFP) in 20 ssions to dist
005. Players take on mis -affected cou
tribute food in a famine- untry and to help
i r me
it to recover and becom self-sufficcient again. A the same time they le
At hunger in the real
earn about h e
w he ork
world and th WFP's wo to preven it.nt
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L
LogiCity
h uk/
http://www.logicity.co.u
T
Technology: B me t
Browser gam – Internet Explorer only
E evel:
Expertise Le A
As user: Medium Low
As developer: L
L
LogiCity is a fun intera uter
active compu game w a differe
with d
ence. Aimed at young p er
people unde 25,
i D ty e
it's a game set in a 3D virtual cit with five main activ e sk
vities where players are set the tas of
r e
reducing the carbon foo k
otprint of an average resident. As players work their way th game
hrough the g
t ck
they will pic up informmation about Climate Ch hange, and so of the m ways in which ever
ome main n ryone
i g
is currently contributing to the emi he s t
issions of th main greenhouse gas (CO2) that causes Cli imate
C
Change.
E
E. M-learning
M e ,
M-learning, or "mobile learning", now comm monly abbr g",
reviated to "mLearning has diff ferent
m or es. h and e
meanings fo different communitie Although related to e-learning a distance education, it is
d ts oss g One
distinct in it focus on learning acro contexts and learning with mobile devices. O definitio ofon
m
mobile learn arning that happens acr
ning is: Lea ross location or that t
ns, ntage of lear
takes advan rning
o es y
opportunitie offered by portable tec rds,
chnologies. In other wor mobile learning dec creases limitation
o
of learning l h ty l evices.
location with the mobilit of general portable de
M bile ng
MLE - Mob Learnin Engine
h ourceforge.n
http://mle.so net/
T
Technology: J ME
Java, Java2M
E evel:
Expertise Le A dium
As user: med high
As developer: h
T le
The "Mobil Learning Engine" (M ve . s
MLE) is a comprehensiv learning application. It transfers the
c
computer-aided and mul sed
ltimedia-bas learning (known as e o e
eLearning) to a mobile environment (to a
m ne). of
mobile phon This special kind o computer- -aided and m
multimedia b ing
based learni is comm monly
k
known as "m e bile a
mLearning". The MLE enables the student to use his mob phone as a medium for m
l s
learning. As a conseque
ence it is possible to use every kind of waiting-
e d arning, no m
-time for lea matter
w
where you aare.
There is als available an M-Learn
T so ion odle, MLE M
ning extensi for Moo Moodle, that enables mobile
t
w to
web access t Moodle.
D oth net/demo.ph
Demo for bo systems: http://mle.sourceforge.n hp
F
F. Chat
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O f
Online chat can refer to any kind of communica e ut ily
ation over the Internet, bu is primari meant to refer
t one-on-one chat or tex
to direct o oup chat (formally al
xt-based gro lso known as synchro onous
c g),
conferencing using tools such as instant mes nternet Relay Chat, talkers and pos
ssengers, In y ssibly
M
MUDs.
Available free solutions
A
Chatty :)
http://www.opensources
h dir/PHP/Cha
scripts.com/d at/chatty__338.html
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Technology: P QL
PHP, MySQ
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C distributed u
Chatty :) is d HP, hly zable and ful
under GPL and written entirely in PH it is high customiz lly
o
open to mod t MySQL as a b
difications. It requires M backend RDB BMS.
A t
AJAX Chat
h mp.net/ajax/
https://blueim /
:
Technology: P L, ptional), Java
PHP, MySQL Ruby (op X
ascript/AJAX
E evel:
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As user: low medium
As developer: m
A is d GNU license. It involves server side a client sid modules.
AJAXChat i distributed under A G and de
L ns
Localization
I rabic, Brazil
Includes Ar lian Portugu
uese, Bulgari e E nnish,
ian, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English, Fin
F rman, Greek Hebrew, It
French, Ger k, talian, Norw
wegian, Polis Romania Russian, Serbian, Slo
sh, an, ovak,
wedish, Turki and Ukra
Spanish, Sw ish ainian translations.
nformation
Technical In
T side logic is written in JavaScript. The server-
The client-s s is n
-side logic i written in PHP. The chat
m re d he gin al)
messages ar stored in a MySQL database. Th Flash plug is used for (optiona sound sup pport
a blish the (op
and to estab ptional) soc
cket connect nt e ver
tion on clien side. The (optional) socket serv is
i d
implemented in Ruby.
p hat
phpFreeCh
h phpfreechat.net/
http://www.p
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PHP, AJAX
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As developer: m
p at nstall, fast, c
phpFreeCha is a free, simple to in e
customizable and multi languages c ports
chat. It supp
m s
multi-rooms (/join), pri
ivate messag
ges, modera tomized them
ation (/kick, /ban), cust mes. Distribbuted
u L
under LGPL license.
L ns
Localization
M age
Multilangua
nformation
Technical In
p at ple em
phpFreeCha uses a simp filesyste for messa and nick
age ge.
kname storag It uses AJJAX to smoo othly
r flicker) and display the chat zone an the nickna zone. Theme custom
refresh (no f c nd ame based
mization is b
o
on CSS and plugins syst e ge ex:
tems that allows to write user storag routines (e Mysql, IR s
RCbackends …),
a
and chat com uire
mmands. It doesn't requ MySQL or any SQL database, m
L L nd es
messages an nickname are
ed
simply store in files.
P Chat
PHPOpenC
h phpopencha
http://www.p at.org/
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Technology: P l,
PHP, MySql Apache
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P hat gh
PHPOpenCh is a hig performan php-bas chat ser
nce sed re e
rver softwar for a live chat-room or -
m
module on eevery php-baased site. Th first versi has been developed for a live-ch
he ion n ect
hat-subproje of
t rman educat
the main ger DBS) called "SchulWeb"
tion portal (D ".
L ns
Localization
M age
Multilangua
nformation
Technical In
P hat ase
PHPOpenCh is databa independ C re, ect
dent, based on the MVC architectur and obje oriented. This
frees up t s
the creators to conce entrate on a great cuustomizable user interrface and high
q
quality admi unctionality. Win32 is no recommen
inistration fu . ot igh
nded for a hi performa ).
ance chat (!)
A Information
Additional I
I
It provides mail, mode ch-server, pr
erating, watc nels, ignore list, text filters, inline user
rivate chann
i dle
images and easy to hand admin too ol.
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F
FlatChat
h s.co.uk/
http://www.ninjadesigns
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Technology: P
PHP, AJAX
E evel:
Expertise Le A w
As user: low medium
As developer: m
F ed m isable settin
Flatchat is a PHP base chat room application. Flatchat has customi ngs, such as font
c c names.
colour and custom nickn
nformation
Technical In
U ax, updates the c content and users w no flicke
Utilising aja Flatchat u chat with er.
A Information
Additional I
F ministrative s
Further adm w
settings allow private mmessaging, c tars, printabl conversat
custom avat le tions,
p rotected nick names, IP b
password pr k d
blocking and word filtering.
X
X7 Chat
h /
http://www.x7chat.com/
T
Technology: P
PHP, AJAX, MySql
E evel:
Expertise Le A w
As user: low medium
As developer: m
nd at
A PHP an AJAX based cha system. Integrates with over 10 bulle r etin board and
c nagement sys
content man open source, software wr
stems. X7 Chat is free, o P.
ritten in PHP
L ns
Localization
M age
Multilangua support.
nformation
Technical In
X quires PHP Version 4.2
X7 Chat req 2.2* or hig
gher. X7 Cha also requ
at uires some t abase
type of data
server. X7 Chat provi ides built in supp port for the follo owing data abase serv vers:
- MySql 3.23.54* or higher
A Information
Additional I
T o
There are no ads or lim mitations. It supports pri
ivate messag logging a offline m
ge and message suppport,
features sim ant
milar to insta messaging. Full m nt t
message styling, font, fon size, font color, and font
more user frie
style for a m endly enviroonment.
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t ng
G. Instant Messagin
I
Instant mes M)
ssaging (IM is a form of real-time communica en ore
ation betwee two or mo people b based
o xt. v connected ov a networ such as th Internet.
on typed tex The text is conveyed via devices c ver rk he
I
Instant mes M)
ssaging (IM are tech hnologies th create t
hat ity
the possibili of real- based
-time text-b
c
communicat m
tion between two or more particip t f
pants over the internet or some form of int ternal
n
network/intr mportant to u
ranet. It is im that what separates chat and instant messaging from
understand t t
t s mail
technologies such as e-m is the perceived syn of
nchronicity o the commmunication by the user - Chat
h
happens in rreal-time. So s
ome systems allow the sending of m ogged
messages to people not currently lo
o messages), th removing much of th difference between In
on (offline m hus g he e nstant Messa mail.
aging and e-m
I saging can be implement through chat services in private d
Instant mess ted oom.
discussion ro
J
Jabber
h jabber.org/w
http://www.j age
web/Main_Pa
h bber.net/ind
http://webjab dex.html
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Technology: J P
Java, XMPP
E evel:
Expertise Le A dium
As user: med high
As developer: h
J nt g
Jabber is an open instan messaging technology that anyone can use. T Jabber co
y e The ommunity ru auns
w
worldwide n free
network of fr IM servi nty oftware like clients for e
ices and has created plen of free so every
d operating sys
device and o ies u s.
stem, servers, and librari to build user Jabber applications
cal ion
Technologic Informati
J
Jabber distinnguishes 2 ty
ypes of insta
allation and configuratio It require client side and server side
on. es e r
i configuration. It provide a list of s
installation/c es servers. A ve
ersion of we based clie is release in
eb ent ed
j
java.
T ossible diffic
There are po n ased platform
culties to run in a web ba m.
A Information
Additional I
J
Jabber archiitecture and standards create a distr s
ributed IM system remin he
niscent of th email sysstems
d a
distributed across the i th
internet, wit users con ms ferent
nnecting to these system locally. It is a diff
a e by
approach to the system architecture provided b AIM wh al
here a centra server, or grouped serrvers
p
provide messaging service. Further informat
tion, about this approach :
h
http://www.j om/javaworl
javaworld.co ld/jw-07-20002/jw-0726--im.html.
Soashable
32
h able.sourcefo
http://soasha orge.net/
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Technology: X
Xmpp4Js, ExtJS
E evel:
Expertise Le A dium
As user: med high
As developer: h
s f rce
Soashable is a family of Open Sour projects r MPP lagship proje is
related to XM on the web. The fl ect
d ut ted
a web-based IM client similar to (bu not affiliat with) Me eebo.
H ols
H. Folksonomy Too
F y wn
Folksonomy (also know as collabo orative taggi
ing, social classification social inde
c n, exing, and s
social
t t d
tagging) is the practice and method of collaborratively crea
ating and ma s e
anaging tags to annotate and
c
categorize ccontent. Folkksonomy describes the bottom-up c n hat
classification systems th emerge from
ng. ast
social taggin In contra to traditioonal subject indexing, mmetadata is g t xperts
generated not only by ex
b c nt. en s
but also by creators and consumers of the conten Usually, freely chose keywords are used ins stead
o led ary. omy folk
of a controll vocabula Folksono (from fo + taxono omy) is a useer-generated taxonomy.
F
FreeTag
h ky.net/freetag
http://getluk g/
h google.com/p
http://code.g p/freetag/
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Technology: P QL
PHP, MySQ
E evel:
Expertise Le A h
As user: high medium
As developer: m
F n ing
Freetag is an easy taggi and folksonomy-ena h PHP applicat
abled plugin for use with MySQL-P tions.
I ur ugh
It allows to create tags on existing database schemas, and access and manage you tags throu a
r
robust API.
nformation
Technical In
F esigned for a
Freetag is de applications running on t LAMP (Linux, Apac MySQL PHP) stack
the ( che, L, k.
A Infromation
Additional I
Freetag is qu flexible in allowing the user to b
F uite ystem.
build his own tagging sy
Gnizr
h google.com/p
http://code.g p/gnizr/
T
Technology: A mcat ySQL 5.0+, Cygwin (if ru
Apache Tom 5.x, My C unning on a
33
W
Windows machine), Java, Xml
E evel:
Expertise Le A h
As user: high high
As developer: h
G o g
Gnizr is an open source application for social bookmarking and web m gnizr
mashup. It is easy to use g
t personalized del.icio.us-l portal fo a group of friends and colleagues to store, cla
to create a p like or f d assify
a
and share in a
nformation, and to mash- nformation about locatio
-it-up with in a on.
n
Technology Information
tures follow
A list of highlighted feat ws:
• t-on Java Se
Built Work + Sprin
ervlet technology (WebW ng)
• nt-end pages are written u
Fron eemarker tem
using the Fre uage
mplate langu
• SQL backed database. Al database o
MyS ll operations ar implemen as stored procedures
re nted d s.
• Semantic tag rela re based on the SKOS onto
ationships ar modeled b e ology.
• ports various metadata output format GeoRSS, R
Supp s t: ology), RSS,
RDF (SIOC + Tag Onto
eline XML a Clusterm XML.
Time and map
• coding mach tag uses Geonames web service
Geoc hine s e.
• -text search e
Full- -on I.
engine built- Apache Lucene API
• n
Open search inte
erface and Fi
irefox search plugin buil
h lt-on the Ope andards.
enSearch sta
A Information
Additional I
tures follow
A list of highlighted feat ws:
• hive ookmarks an organize b
Arch saved bo nd using tags an folders.
bookmarks u nd
• G
Edit notes using WYSIWYG bookmark editor.
• hical location values to b
Assign geograph n and m .
bookmarks a view them on a map.
• ne hips n der, er ber-of.
Defin relationsh between bookmark tags -- broad narrowe and memb
• bookmarks u
Tag b ine
using Machi Tags.
• er mark search using Lucen
Supe fast bookm ne.
• ks r taneously using OpenSea
Search bookmark and other sites simult arch.
• w s map meline.
View bookmarks in Clusterm and Tim
• ort
Impo new book
kmarks from user-define RSS subscriptions -- R
m ed and S.
RSS, Atom a GeoRSS
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• ate ication beha
Crea new appli gnizr API. F example:
aviors using g For :
o dules to supp custom M
Add mod port gs;
Machine Tag
o eners to hand bookmark change eve
Add liste dle k ents;
o S o utomated boo
Develop custom RSS crawlers to perform au orts; and
okmark impo
o hird-party ma
Create th hed r S
ashups from data publish by gnizr (RDF, RSS and JSON).
Scuttle
h eforge.net/pr
http://source le/
rojects/scuttl
T
Technology: P QL
PHP, MySQ
E evel:
Expertise Le A h
As user: high medium
As developer: m
n e kmarking en
Scuttle is an open source social book ngine that yo can run on your own s It's base on
ou n site. ed
P
PHP and su t
upports most of the del.icio.us proto
ocol, meanin develope who have made tool for
ng ers e ls
d apt
del.icio.us can easily ada them to Scuttle.
L ns
Localization
C mplified), Da
Chinese(Sim h,
anish, Dutch English, Fr
rench, Germ Hindi, It
man, talian,Japane Lithuan
ese, nian,
P
Portuguese, Spanish
P
Pligg
h pligg.com/
http://www.p
Technology PHP,MySQL
P L
Expertise lev
E vel A developer Medium
As r:
P open source Content Management System (CMS) that yo can down
Pligg is an o M t ou se
nload and us for
CMS provid social ne
free. Pligg C des software that encourages visitors to register on your
etworking s t s
w hat tent her
website so th they can submit cont and connect with oth users.
cal ion
Technologic Informati
P e
Pligg CMS is based on open source PHP and M hnologies that allow it to be installe on
MySQL tech ed
m osts
most web ho on a rela l
atively small budget.
I ines
I. Web Search Engi
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rch
A Web sear engine is a tool designed to se formation on the World Wide Web. The
earch for inf n .
lts d nd
search resul are usually presented in a list an are comm d
monly called hits. The iIInformation may
c web mages, infor
consist of w pages, im me
rmation and other types of files. Som search en ngines also mine
d ble
data availab in newsb books, databbases, or op directori
pen ies. Unlike Web direct h
tories, which are
m by
maintained b human ed h
ditors, search engines opperate algorit
thmically or are a mixtu of algorith
r ure hmic
a i
and human input.
Shinix
http://www.sphinxsearch
h h.com/
h veloperwork
http://www.ibm.com/dev xsearch/
ks/library/os-php-sphinx
T
Technology: P l,
PHP, MySql
E evel:
Expertise Le A w
As user: low medium
As developer: m
Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercia license is also
d L al
a r
available for embedded use.
nformation
Technical In
Shinix is a standalone search engi fficient and relevant ful
ine, meant to provide fast, size-ef lltext
tions to othe applicatio
search funct er lly d e
ons. Sphinx was special designed to integrate well with SQL
d nd
databases an scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources sup ng er
pport fetchin data eithe via
d ection to My
direct conne ySQL or PosstgreSQL, o using XM pipe mech
or ML xer
hanism (a pipe to index in
special XML mat
L-based form which Sp phinx recognnizes).
A Information
Additional I
• peed (upto 10 MB/sec on modern CP
high indexing sp 0 n PUs)
• ed y 4 llections)
high search spee (avg query is under 0.1 sec on 2-4 GB text col
• (upto 100 GB of text, up 100 M do
high scalability ( B pto n PU)
ocuments on a single CP
• ports distribu searchin (since v.0
supp uted ng 0.9.6)
• ports MySQL natively (M
supp L MyISAM and InnoDB ta
d ables are both supported)
h )
• ports phrase s
supp searching
• ports phrase p
supp anking, providing good r
proximity ra relevance
• ports English and Russian stemming
supp h n
• ports any num
supp mber of docu
ument fields (weights ca be change on the fly)
s an ed )
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• ports docume groups
supp ent
• ports stopwor
supp rds
• ports differen search mo
supp nt odes ("match all", "match phrase" an "match an as of v.0.
h h nd ny" .9.5)
• eric terface which greatly sim
gene XML int tom integrati
mplifies cust ion
• O ompiling etc search clie API
pure-PHP (ie. NO module co c) ent
Sphider
h
http://www.sphider.eu/
T
Technology: P l,
PHP, MySql
E evel:
Expertise Le A w
As user: low medium
As developer: m
Sphider is a popular op web nd
pen-source w spider an search en cludes an aut
ngine. It inc tomated craw wler,
w
which can foollow links f s indexer whic builds an index of all the search t
found on a site, and an i ch terms
e PHP and use MySQL as its back en database (requires ver
found in the pages. It is written in P es nd rsion
for
4 or above f both)
cal ion
Technologic Informati
• orms full tex indexing.
Perfo xt
• s ynamic pages
Can index both static and dy s.
• ds ref, rea
Find links in hr frame, ar and meta tags, and can also foll
a c ven script
low links giv in javas
rings via win
as str on ow.open.
ndow.locatio and windo
• pects robots.t protocol, and nofollo and noind tags.
Resp txt , ow dex
• ows
Follo server side redirections.
• ws g
Allow spidering to be limiited by dept (ie maxim
th r from the sta
mum number of clicks f arting
e), omain or by directory.
page by (sub)do y
• ws ing certain keyw
Allow spidering only the urls matchi (or not matching) c gular
words or reg
expressions.
• ports indexin of pdf and doc files (u
Supp ng d for ersion).
using external binaries fo file conve
• ws g
Allow resuming paused spidering.
• clude commo words fro being ind
Possbility to exc on om dexed.
A Information
Additional I
37
• ports AND, O and phra searches
Supp OR ase
• Supp by any cluding the w
ports excluding words (b putting a '-' in front of a word, a page inc word
be
will b omitted f ults).
from the resu
• nd es ories
Option to add an group site into catego
• mit g category and its subcateg
Possibility to lim searching to a given c d gories.
• arcing in a sp
Possibility of sea main
pecified dom only.
• d gestion on m
"Did you mean" search sugg ries.
mistyped quer
• text-sensitive auto-comp
Cont earch terms (a la Google Suggest)
pletion on se (
• (searching fo "run" find "running", "runs" etc)
Word stemming for english ( for ds )
• udes a sophis
Inclu b inistration in
sticated web based admi nterface
• Supp ng
ports indexin via a web interface a well as from comma
b as fr andline - eas to set up cron
sy
.
jobs.
• mprehensive site and sear statistics
Com rch
• ple sy ate e
Simp template system - eas to integra into a site
N
Nutch
h e.apache.org
http://lucene g/
T
Technology: J
Java, Apache
E evel:
Expertise Le A w
As user: low high
As developer: h
N en
Nutch is ope source we eb-search so
oftware. It is built on Luc
cene Java, a specifics, suc as
adding web-s ch
database, par
a crawler, a link-graph d ML er t
rsers for HTM and othe document formats, etc c.
n
Technology Information
L
Lucene is a free/open source infor trieval librar
rmation ret ry, originall created in Java by D
ly Doug
C d
Cutting. It is supported by the Ap pache Softwware Founda nder the Ap
ation and is released un pache
Software Lic ache.org/)
cense. (http://lucene.apa
L
Lucene has been ported
d to prog
gramming uages
langu
i elphi, Perl, C#, C++, Py
including De C ython, Ruby and PHP.
L T
Lucene.NET
h ator.apache.o
http://incuba net/
org/lucene.n
38
T
Technology: C
C#, Apache
E evel:
Expertise Le A w
As user: low medium
As developer: m
L ce
Lucene.Net is a sourc code, cl ss,
lass-per-clas API-per r-API and algorithmat f
tic port of the
J e ine
Java Lucene search engi to the C# and .NET p
# lizing Micro
platform util Framework.
osoft .NET F
AX A
Google AJA Search API
h google.com/a
http://code.g rch/web.htm
apis/ajaxsear ml
T
Technology: G ,
Google API, AJAX
E evel:
Expertise Le A w
As user: low medium
As developer: m
nformation
Technical In
T rch
The Google AJAX Sear API is a Javascript library that allows to em le
mbed Googl Search in web
p plications. T Google A
pages and other web app The ch
AJAX Searc API prov s
vides simple web objects that
p ine s
perform inli searches over a nu umber of Go
oogle servic (Web Search, Loca Search, V
ces al Video
g ews h,
Search, Blog Search, Ne Search, Book Search Image Sea atent Search)
arch, and Pa ).
J Networkin
J. Social N ng
A social neetwork serv g
vice focuses on building online com f ho
mmunities of people wh share inte erests
a ities, or who are interest in explor
and/or activi o ted ring the inter
rests and act hers. Most s
tivities of oth social
n
network serv eb
vices are we based and provide a variety of ways for user to interac such as e-
d w rs ct, -mail
a messaging se
and instant m ervices.
Social netwo created new ways to com
orking has c and
mmunicate a share inf formation. Social networrking
w e d
websites are being used regularly b millions o people, and it now seems that so
by of a ocial networrking
w e rt ay
will be an enduring par of everyda life. The main types of social ne ervices are t
etworking se those
w ain es
which conta directorie of some categories ( mer
(such as form classma ates), means to connect with
ually with se
friends (usu on
elf-descriptio pages), a recomm
and ems linked to trust. Pop
mender syste t pular
m w
methods now combine m many of the with My
ese, ySpace and F eing the mos widely used in
Facebook be st
North America;[1] Nexopia (mostl in Canad [2] Bebo,[3] Faceboo Hi5, My
N ly da); , ok, ySpace, Tag gged,
Xing;[4] and Skyrock in parts of Eur
X rope;[5] Orku and Hi5 in South Ame
ut n entral Ameri [6]
erica and Ce ica;
a ter, X
and Friendst Orkut, Xiaonei and C Asia e
Cyworld in A and the Pacific Islaands.
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T
There have been some a standardize these servic to avoid the need to duplicate en
attempts to s ces ntries
o nd AF d pen
of friends an interests (see the FOA standard and the Op Source I Initiative), but this has led to
rns
some concer about pri ivacy.
l
OpenSocial
h google.com/a
http://code.g cial/
apis/opensoc
T
Technology: G ,
Google API, XML
E evel:
Expertise Le A dium
As user: med medium
As developer: m
O ommon API for social ap
OpenSocial defines a co across multip websites. With standa
pplications a ple ard
J a d c
JavaScript and HTML, developers can create ap that acce a social n
pps ess ends and upd
network's frie date
feeds.
P
Pligg
h pligg.com/
http://www.p
T
Technology: P L
PHP,MySQL
E evel:
Expertise Le medium
As developer: m
P open source Content Ma
Pligg is an o MS)
anagement System (CM that can be downloa ed
aded and use for
C des
free. Pligg CMS provid social ne etworking s software tha encourage visitors to register so that
at es o o
t
they can sub t
bmit content and connect with other users.
cal ion
Technologic Informati
P is open source PHP and M
Pligg CMS i based on o nologies that allow it to be installed o
MySQL techn b on
m osts.
most web ho
A
Aroundme
h barnraiser.or
http://www.b e
rg/aroundme
T
Technology: P L,
PHP,MySQL Apache
E evel:
Expertise Le A dium
As user: med medium
As developer: m
4
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A Me
AROUNDM collabora ation server i the perfect solution fo anyone wi
is or eate rative
ishing to cre collabor
b.
social spaces on the Web
I web und
It is able to extend a w site arou people f
forming grou on the w (think "
ups web "Google grou
ups",
"Yahoo grou ng").
ups" or "Nin
cal ion
Technologic Informati
U
Using ARO OUNDMe c n
collaboration server th user can create mu
he n aborative gr
ultiple colla roup,
w c n
webspace, community or social networking w websites. Each group can create a multiple page
c are d al h
collaborative web site. The users a provided with socia tools such as a guest all), a
tbook (a wa
g d ch
group blog, a forum and a wiki whic they can d eb
drop into we pages.
E omisable usi xHTML CSS, Javas
Each group is fully custo ing L, HP. ate
script and PH Groups can be priva or
p
public.
D
Dolphin
h boonex.com
http://www.b olphin/
m/products/do
T
Technology: P L,
PHP,MySQL
E evel:
Expertise Le A dium
As user: med medium
As developer: m
D ovides simp yet sop
Dolphin pro ple phisticated ttools to buuild commu Smart
unity sites. Dolphin S
C , tware that a
Community Builder is a universal, free, open source soft uild nd
allows to bu any kin of
o munity.
online comm
A Information
Additional I
Y
YouTube, M deo,
MySpace, Od Flickr, Match and F
M a ustomizable. Free and ad
Facebook - all in one, cu d-free
v
versions are available.
M
Mahara
h ra.org/
http://mahar
T
Technology: P L,
PHP,MySQL
E evel:
Expertise Le A dium
As user: med medium
As developer: m
M a rce olio with ble
Mahara is an open sour e-portfo system w a flexib display framework. Mahara, is user
c ironment wit a permiss
centred envi th sions framewwork that ena
ables differe views of an e-portfol to
ent f lio
b
be easily maanaged. Mahhara also features a webblog, resume builder an social net
e nd tworking sysstem,
c users and cre
connecting u e mmunities.
eating online learner com
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cal ion
Technologic Informati
A ecurity, scala
Advanced se ability
A Information
Additional I
W s
What makes Mahara dif fferent from other ePortf ms trol h
folio system is the cont on which items and what
i within a por
information (Artefacts) w rtfolio other can see.
A ce Silver Award Recipent of Learining I
Award of New Zealand Open Sourc Awards, S d 8.
Impact 2008
P
Phpizabi
h phpizabi.net
http://www.p t/
T
Technology: P L,
PHP,MySQL
E evel:
Expertise Le A dium
As user: med medium
As developer: m
P s e
PHPizabi is one of the most powe g ds
erful social networking platforms. With literally thousand of
w
websites pow wered by PHHPizabi incl
luding every s he mplex
ything from simple friends sites to th most com
n o asy ll,
networking super sites out there. Ea to instal use, and r bar vide a
raising the b on what it is to prov
r t, working pack
reliable, fast social netw e ess ext
kage to raise your busine to the ne level.
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K
K. Wikis
p ection of We pages des
A wiki is a page or colle eb able es
signed to ena anyone who accesse it to contribute
o
or modify co g
ontent, using a simplifie markup la
ed n eate
anguage. Wikis are often used to cre collabor rative
w d c
websites and to power community w websites. The collaborati encyclop
ive edia of
pedia Wikipe is one o the
b kis s e nd dge
best-known wikis. Wik are used in business to provide intranet an Knowled Management
systems. Ward Cunning gham, the d f wiki e,
developer of the first w software WikiWik kiWeb, origin
nally
d plest online d
described it as "the simp database that could possibly work".
T
TWiki
h org
http://twiki.o
T
TWiki is an enterprise w ise
wiki, enterpri collabora ation platform and know
m, wledge manaagement systtem.
I tured Wiki, t
It is a Struct ed
typically use to run a pr
roject develo ce, ent
opment spac a docume managem ment
system, a kn nowledge base, or any ot are an or ernet. Web
ther groupwa tool, on a intranet o on the Inte
c
content can be created c ely just ser. s
collaborative by using j a brows TWiki is currently un ndergoing a fork
p h
process, with most of the developer community continuing d nt randed codeb
developmen on the rebr base
F e y t
Foswiki due to action by the project leadership.
Main Devel
lopers • Peter Thoen
ny
• TWiki conttributors
ng e
Programmin Language Perl
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website wiki.org
http://tw
Supported Platforms
P • rowser with Perl CGI
Any web br
Key feature
es • Revision coontrol - comp rail, also for meta data su
plete audit tr uch
ents ess
as attachme and acce control settings
• Fine-grained access con ct
ntrol - restric read/write/ /rename on ssite
level, web level, page le based on user group
evel ps
• Extensible T up
TWiki marku language e
• TinyMCE b based WYSIWYG editor r
• Dynamic co ontent genera ation with TTWiki variab bles
• Forms and r c
reporting - capture struct tured conten report on it
nt,
es d
with searche embedded in pages
• abase - users can create w applica
Built in data s wiki the
ations using t
kup
TWiki Mark Languag ge
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• Skinnable u interface
user e
• RSS/Atom feeds and e-mail notifica
ation
• Over 400 Extensions an 200 Plugi
nd ins
Used by • ecommunica
British Tele ations
• Wireless
Cingular W
• uments
Texas Instru
• Yahoo!
M
MoinMoin
h mo.in
http://moinm
M i gine
MoinMoin is a wiki eng impleme ented in Pyth
hon, initially based on th PikiPiki w engine.
y he wiki
D u rms GNU General Public Lice
Distributed under the ter of the G ense, MoinMMoin is free ssoftware. A
n
number of o s
organizations use MoinM
Moin to run p
public wikis, including n
, software pro
notable free s ojects
U
Ubuntu, Apa n, ,
ache, Debian FreeBSD, and others.
Main Devel
lopers • Jürgen Herm
mann
• Thomas Wa aldmann
ng e
Programmin Language n
Python
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website moinmo.in
http://m
P
Supported Platforms eb with
Any we browser w Python CGI
Key feature
es • Revision mmanagement
• Plugins, Maacros and Acctions
• CamelCase linking and free links
• Access Con ntrol Lists
• arch engine
Build-in sea
• Synchronization of contents via XM
ML-RPC
Used by • Apache fou ki
undation wik (wiki.apache.org)
• OpenOffice an
e.Org Germa wiki (http p://www.ooo owiki.de/)
• nux
Ubuntu Lin global, it reek wikis
talian and gr
m,
(http://wiki.ubuntu.com http://wiki rg,
i.ubuntu-it.or
ubuntu-gr.or
http://wiki.u rg)
• ject
Debian Proj Wiki (ht ebian.org)
ttp://wiki.de
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• r http://moinm
Many other wikis (see h mo.in/)
P
PmWiki
h mo.in
http://moinm
P f
PmWiki is free wiki soft ftware written by Patrick R. Michaud in the PHP programmi language It
k d P ing e.
i under the term of the GN General Public License. It is des
is licensed u ms NU signed to be easy to instaall
a ize gine
and customi as an eng for creat ting professi
ional web sit with one to any numb of conten
tes ber nt
a e
authors. The software fo ocuses on ease-of-use, so people with little IT or wiki experi
o h r e
ience will be
a t spite having such low ba
able to put it to use. Des arriers to inst a basic w
tall tware is also
wiki, the soft o
d y
designed to be extremely extensible and custom mizable.
Main Devel
lopers • Michaud
Patrick R. M
• PmWiki Co ommunity
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website www.pmwik
http://w ki.org
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP
• WAMP
• HP
IIS with PH
• with
Lighthttpd w PHP
Key feature
es • ok-and-feel v skins
Custom loo via
• ntrol for entir site, group of pages o individua
Access Con re ps or al
pages.
• gin
Customization and plug architectu ure.
Used by • mmercial, go
Various com l sites (see
overnmental and other s
http://www.pmwiki.orgg/wiki/PmWiiki/PmWikiUUsers)
X
Xwiki
h
http://www.xwiki.org
X W re eral
XWiki is a Wiki softwar package licensed under the GNU Lesser Gene Public L s
License. It is an
E wiki, with ma features needed for p
Enterprise w any l plication wik
professional usage. It is also an App ki
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w ws on
which allow the creatio of applicaations (includ
ding structur data and scripting) within the W
red w Wiki
i he s e
interface. Th languages that can be used are Ve G
elocity and Groovy.
lopers
Main Devel Wiki unity
The XW commu
ng e
Programmin Language Java
OS platform
Cross-p
License L ral icense
GNU Lesser Gener Public Li
Website www.xwiki.o
http://w org
Supported Platforms
P • ntainer such as Tomcat, J
Servlet Con , ,
Jetty, JBoss, WebLogic,
with onal se
WebSpher w a relatio databas (HSQL, M MySQL, etc)
Key feature
es • nt e, ups,
User rights managemen (by wiki / space / page using grou
etc...)
• PDF export t
• Full-text seaarch
• Version con ntrol
• d n
Content and site design Export and Import
• PI,
Plugins, AP Programm ming...
Used by • mmercial, an other sites (see
Various com nd s
xwiki/bin/vie
http://www.xwiki.org/x ew/References/ )
D
DokuWiki
h rg
http://www.dokuwiki.or
D s ware t
DokuWiki is wiki softw aimed at small comp panies’ docu
umentation n Wiki
needs. DokuW is licen nsed
u n
under GPL 2 and written in the prog P. us
gramming language PHP It works on plain text files and thu
n tabase. Its sy
needs no dat ilar
yntax is simi to the on used by M
ne nd ure
MediaWiki an makes su the data f files
r able
remain reada outside the wiki.
lopers
Main Devel Andrea Gohr
as
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
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License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website www.dokuwi
http://w iki.org
Supported Platforms
P • erver with PH support
Any web se HP
Key feature
es • Revision co ontrol
• Access cont trol
• Plugins
• Templates
• Internationa d n
alisation and localization
• Caching
• arch
Full text sea
Used by • mmercial, an other sites (see
Various com nd s
http://www.dokuwiki.org/users)
M i
MediaWiki
h org/
http://www.mediawiki.o
M sed
MediaWiki is a web-bas wiki soft by ts
tware application used b all project of the Wik kimedia
F osted by Wik and man other wiki including some of the largest and
Foundation, all wikis ho kia, ny is, g e d
m ar
most popula ones. Orig ve
ginally developed to serv the needs of the free ccontent Wiki ipedia
e n y s l e
encyclopedia, today it has also been deployed by companies for internal knowledge managemen nt,
a ntent manage
and as a con ement system Notably, N
m. e its fic
Novell uses it to operate several of i high traffi
w
websites.
lopers
Main Devel • Wikimedia Foundation
• er
Brion Vibbe
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website www.mediaw
http://w wiki.org/
Supported Platforms
P • erver with PH support
Any web se HP
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Key feature
es • Internationa d
alization and localizationn
• Caching
• Free links
• Rich Contn and suppo for rende
net ort matical formu
ering mathem ulas
using LaTeX X.
• Namespace for organiz
es zation
• Customization
• Access cont and grou
trol ups
Used by • Wikipedia
• Novel
• Various oth sites (see
her
org/Category
http://www.wikiindex.o ki
y:MediaWik )
D kitools Mod
Drupal Wik dule
h l.org
http://drupal
h l.org/project
http://drupal t/wikitools
D free
Drupal is a f and open source mo odular framework and Co agement Sys
ontent Mana stem (CMS)
w he
written in th programm ge back end" sy
ming languag PHP. It is used as a "b any
ystem for ma different
t eb ging from sm personal blogs to lar corporate and political sites. The
types of We sites, rang mall l rge e
d
drupal wikit e ome s re
tools module provides so settings to get a mor wiki-like behavior.
Main Devel
lopers • Charlie Gor
rdon
• The drupal community
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website drupal.org/pr
drupal.org , http://d ools
roject/wikito
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP (Lin PHP)
nux, Apache, MySQL, P
• IIS
Windows, I
Key feature
es • ation
Personaliza
• Role based permission system
• Searching
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• Modules
• AntiSpam.
• Advanced c on.
categorizatio
• n nguages.
Localized in several lan
• Content synndication
• Integration with drupal cms
• l
Easy install & upgrade.
Used by • es, nd ee
Various site portals an wikis: (Se
http://www.drupalsites.net)
L ng gement Systems
L. Learnin Manag
L
LAMS
h oundation.or
http://lamsfo rg/
L
LAMS, the Learning Activity Mana agement System is an o m
open source Learning Design system for
d m nd
designing, managing an deliverin online co
ng ollaborative learning act provides teac
tivities. It p chers
w
with an intu e g
uitive visual authoring environment for creating sequences of learning activities. T These
a n
activities can include a r range of inddividual tasks small grou work and whole class activities b
s, up d s based
o
on both con ntent and co ollaboration. LAMS is "inspired" by the conc cept and pr rinciples of IMS
L
Learning D MS
Design. LAM is developed in co MS
ollaboration with LAM Foundati ion Ltd, LAAMS
I al nd
Internationa Pty Ltd, an the Macq quarie E-lear e nce OE),
rning Centre Of Excellen (MELCO all based in
Sydney, Aus filiation with Macquarie University.
stralia, in aff h e
lopers
Main Devel n
LAMS Foundation Ltd
ng e
Programmin Language Java
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website amsfoundati
http://la ion.org/
Supported Platforms
P • lication Serv
JBoss Appl ver
Key feature
es • Highly intu authoring en
uitive visual a for
nvironment f creating
of
sequences o learning a activities
• es
Incorporate single lear arning Objec
rner content (such as Lea cts)
as n,
as well as collaborative tasks such a discussion voting andd
debate.
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• Allows edu pture, share a adapt di
ucators to cap and igital lesson
d
plans based on "best praactice processses"
• ime g
Rich, real-ti student monitoring and tracking facilities
• Integration with Learnin Managem System such as
ng ment ms
Moodle, Sa akai,.LRN, B and
Blackboard a WebCT.
• Supports edducational sppecifications such as IMS Content
s
ata,
Packaging, IMS Metada IMS Lea gn.
arning Desig
Used by • Universities and educat
s utes the
tional institu all over t world
M
Moodle
h dle.org
http:// mood
M d
Moodle is a free and open sour rce e-learni e wn
ing software platform, also know as a Co ourse
M nt
Managemen System, L anagement S
Learning Ma System, or VVirtual Learrning Enviro has
onment. It h a
u th
significant user base wit 49,256 re
egistered site with 28,17
es s 55 (as
77,443 users in 2,571,85 courses ( of
F
February, 20 le
009). Moodl is designe to help ed
ed ate
ducators crea online co es
ourses with opportunitie for
r pen d
rich interaction. Its op source license and modular d ns ple
design mean that peop can dev velop
a unctionality. Developme is undert
additional fu . ent taken by a g
globally diffu rk
fused networ of comme ercial
a
and non-com ers, ned
mmercial use streamlin by the M Moodle comp in
pany based i Perth, We alia.
estern Austra
lopers
Main Devel Martin Dougiamas
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website e.org
moodle
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP
• WAMP
• erver with PH and SQL Database
Any web se HP L
Key feature
es • Activities
• Various Resources
• Questionnaires and Qui izzes
• hemes
Graphical th
• Authenticattion System
• Enrollment methods
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• ters
Content Filt
• r luggins and modules.
Support for 3rd party pl
Used by • Universities and educational institut all over t world
s tes the
ect
Sakai Proje
w project.org
www.sakaip
ommunity of academic i
Sakai is a co f commercial organization and indiv
institutions, c ns viduals who wwork
t d
together to develop a co ommon Colla aboration an Learning E
nd nt he
Environmen (CLE). Th Sakai CLE is a E
free, comm munity sour rce, educati m
ional software platform distribut ted under the Educational
C n
Community License (a type of open source lice ense). The S s
Sakai CLE is used for te earch
eaching, rese
a
and collabor ai
ration. Saka is a Java-b based, servi s to
ice-oriented application suite that is designed t be
operable and extensible. Version 1.0 was release in March 2005. As of July
scalable, reliable, intero ed f
2
2007, Sakai is in produc ction at over 150 instituti ng
ions and bein piloted by over 100 m
y more.
Main Devel
lopers Sakai C
Community
ng e
Programmin Language Java
OS platform
Cross-p
License munity License
Educational Comm
Website org
www.sakaiproject.o
Supported Platforms
P • Tomcat
Key feature
es • Announcem te nts
ments - used to inform sit participan about cur rrent
items of interest
• Drop Box - allows instr students to sh docume
ructors and s hare ents
within a pri for
ivate folder f each stud dent
• hive
Email Arch - all mes o mail
ssages sent to a site's em address a are
e
stored in the Email Archive
• y
Resources - share many kinds of ma aterial securely with
members of your site, or make them available to the public
f o m
• me,
Chat Room - for real-tim unstruct tured conversations amon ng
pants who are signed on to the site at the same tim
site particip t me
• Forums - co on
ommunicatio tool that i r s
instructors or site leaders
can use to ccreate an unl ber
limited numb of discus ssion forumss
• Threaded D Discussion
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• Message Ce mmunication tool that all
enter - a com n lows site
s
participants to commun internal cour mail
nicate using i rse
• Message Of The Day
f
• News/RSS - uses RSS to bring dyna
t o
amic news to your work ksite
• Poll tool - a
allows users to set up an online vote
• Preferences s
• Presentation - allows yo to present a set of slid to many
n ou t des
viewers
• Profile / Ro the
oster - view t names, photos, and p te
profiles of sit
participantss
• Repository Search - sea ools
arch content created by to within a
worksite or course
• Schedule - a uctors or site organizers to post item in
allows instru e ms
a calendar fformat
Used by • Indiana Uniiversity
• etts
Massachuse Institute of Technolo ogy
• Stanford Unniversity
• of
University o Michigan
• Polytechnic University of Valencia
c
• ersities and educational i
Other unive e orld.
institutes all over the wo
A
ATutor
w project.org
www.sakaip
A n
ATutor is an Open Sou M t
urce Web-based Learning Content Management System (LC CMS). ATut istor
u
used in various cont uding onlin course managemen continui
texts, inclu ne nt, ing professional
d nt ers, d
developmen for teache career development and acade
t, ch.
emic researc The soft ed
tware is cite as
u lity ,
unique for its accessibil features, (useful to vvisually-imp
paired and ddisabled learn or
ners); and fo its
for
suitability f educatio onal use ac e
ccording to software evaluation c ablished by The
criteria esta
A T d ent .
American Society for Training and Developme (ASTD). ATutor is used interna d
ationally and has
b
been transla er
ated into ove fifteen lan
nguages with support for over forty a
h r anguage mod
additional la dules
c
currently unnder developmment.
lopers
Main Devel ve ogy e iversity of T
Adaptiv Technolo Resource Centre Uni Toronto
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License munity License
Educational Comm
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Website org
www.sakaiproject.o
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP
• WAMP
• Any web se HP SQL
erver with PH and MyS
Key feature
es • Enhanced A y lternatives fo all visual
Accessibility with text al or
nd d ll of
elements, an keyboard access to al elements o the progra am.
• or ity
Designed fo adaptabili to any of several teac ching and
enarios. Ther are four m areas th reflect thi
learning sce re main hat is
design princ es, s, les,
ciple: theme privileges tool modul and grou ups.
• Learning Objects Repos sitory
• Backup Ma anage
• News & An nnouncemen nts
• File Manager
• Test Manag ger
• Polls
• Forums
• Addon Mod dules
Used by • s tional institu
Universities and educat utes.
D
Dokeos
h m/
http://www.dokeos.com
D o
Dokeos is one of the la
argest and m
most recogn nies dedicat to open source Lear
nized compan ted rning
M nt Its
Managemen Systems. I main product is a SC CORM comp pliant open s ing
source learni suite use byed
m al s,
multinationa companies federal addministration and univer
ns me
rsities in som 60 count tal
tries for a tot of
1,297,000 ussers.
lopers
Main Devel s
Dokeos
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website www.dokeos
http://w s.com/
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Supported Platforms
P • LAMP
• WAMP
• erver with PH and MyS
Any web se HP SQL
Key feature
es • Learning M Management : SCORM im and
mport, edit a export,soocial
interaction, sophisticate test and su
ed urveys
• RM
Oogie Rapid Learning : build SCOR courses online from m
templates, ffrom Powerp point and Op mpress®
penOffice Im
• Accurate re eporting that you can be exported to Excel
• Videoconfe rtual meeting and virtual classroom for
erencing : vir g l
g
live training sessions.
Used by • Ghent Univversity
• ersiteit Bruss
Vrije Unive sel
• r
Companies like Arcelor Mittal, Lut tosa or TNG
• Other unive e institutes.
ersities and educational i
M m e
M. Forum Software
F
FluxBB
h b.org/
http://fluxbb
F ms ast
FluxBB aim to be a fa and light tweight PHP P-powered discussion bo eleased unde the
oard. It is re er
G ral L
GNU Gener Public License. Its primary go smaller and less graphi
oals are to be faster, s ically
i red r
intensive when compar to other discussion boards. Flu uxBB incor wer
rporates few features than
o m
other, comparable forum scripts, chooosing to foc on the pr
cus tionality of a online for
rimary funct an rum.
Main Devel
lopers B.org Develo
FluxBB opers
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website fluxbb.org/
http://fl
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP
• WAMP
• Any web se hp ql/postgresql
erver with ph and mysq ort
l/sqlite suppo
Key feature
es • Semantic an valid XH
nd HTML and CSS
• Support for translation a per-user language se
and r ettings
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• Multiple the er-user settin
emes with pe ngs
Used by • http://www.fluxbb.net/
• Various oth forums
her
p
phpBB3
h phpbb.com/
http://www.p
p popular Inter forum p
phpBB is a p rnet package writ in the PH scripting language. T name
tten HP g The
"phpBB" is an abbreviat ble e eral
tion of PHP Bulletin Board. Availab under the GNU Gene Public
L pBB is free s
License, php software.
lopers
Main Devel pBB Group
The php
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website www.phpbb.com/
http://w
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP
• WAMP
• erver with ph and mysq
Any web se hp l/sqlite suppo
ql/postgresql ort
Key feature
es • User Prefereences
• Moderation n
• Administrat tion
• Unread mes ng
ssage trackin
• Private Mes ssage Systemm
• Statistics
• and
Permanent a tempora bansary
• Password H Hashing
• A
CAPTCHA Visual Con nfirmation
• Search systeem
• Localizationn
Used by • b
A lot of web forums
M oard
Mercury Bo
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w uryboard.com
www.mercu m
T
The Mercur ryBoard bull letin board s
system writt in PHP and MySQL It's object oriented, m
ten L. t multi-
l ed
lingual and uses detaile groups a and/or user ppermissions. It has app ose
pealed to tho with lim mited
r r
resources or those intere
ested in doin customiza
ng is t ntage
ations to the code. This i because it takes advan
o d n w to d
of the speed MySQL can bring as well as being clear, easy t understand object orie ented code.
Main Devel
lopers • Jason Warnner
• t
Mark Elliot
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website mercuryboard.com
www.m
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP
• WAMP
• Any web se hp ql
erver with ph and mysq
Key feature
es • 3D permissions system
• admin contro
Powerful a ols
• easy skinnin
Complete, e ng
• Optimized MMySQL inteeraction
Used by • Various web forums
D rums Modul
Drupal For le
h l.org ,
http://drupal
h l.org/project
http://drupal t/wikitools
D free
Drupal is a f and open source mo odular framework and Co agement Sys
ontent Mana stem (CMS)
w he
written in th programm ge back end" sy
ming languag PHP. It is used as a "b any
ystem for ma different
t eb
types of We sites, rang
ging from sm personal blogs to lar corporate and political sites. Dru
mall l rge e upal
F dule es
Forums Mod provide the ability to create thr
y ussion board called foru
readed discu ds, ums, on a
d
drupal site.
Main Devel
lopers • The drupal community
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
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OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website drupal.org/pr
drupal.org , http://d ools
roject/wikito
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP (Lin PHP)
nux, Apache, MySQL, P
• IIS
Windows, I
Key feature
es • Personalizaation
• Role based permission system
• Searching
• Modules
• AntiSpam.
• Advanced c on.
categorizatio
• n nguages.
Localized in several lan
• Content synndication
• Integration with drupal cms
• Easy install & upgrade.
l
Used by • Various site portals an wikis: (Se
es, nd ee
http://www.drupalsites.net)
N g Software
N. Weblog Server S
A ller
Apache Rol
h
http://roller.apache.org
R
Roller Web d,
blogger is a Java-based full-featur red, Multi-b -user, Open Source we
blog, Multi- eblog
er nally written by Dave Jo
server. Rolle was origin n ohnson in 2002 for a mag ource
gazine article on open so
d nt
developmen tools, but b ular
became popu at FreeR com) and wa later chosen to
Roller.net (now JRoller.c as
d
drive the em ogs
mployee blo at Sun M ms, d
Microsystem Inc. and IBM developerWorks blogs. In 2 2007,
R me al f
Roller becom an officia project of the Apache Software Fo oundation.
lopers
Main Devel Apache Software F
e Foudation
ng e
Programmin Language Java
OS platform
Cross-p
License e 0
Apache License 2.0
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Website oller.apache.org
http://ro
Supported Platforms
P • Tomcat / MMySQL
• have reporte success ru
Also users h ed er
unning Rolle on Glassfish,
, mo, P
Websphere, JBoss, Resin, Gernonim Derby, PostgresSQL L,
Oracle, etc.
Key feature
es • Multi-user bblogging: ca support te of thousa
an ens ands of users s
and blogs
• Group blog hree on
gging with th permisso levels (ed ditor, author and
limited)
• r
Support for comment m nd t
moderation an comment spam
prevention mmeasures
• ave e er
Bloggers ha complete control ove blog layou ut/style via
templates
• arch engine indexes webl entry con
Built-in sea log ntent
• Pluggable ccache and ren tem
ndering syst
• r s rt log
Support for blog clients that suppor MetaWebl API
• ave
All blogs ha entry and comment f h
feeds in both RSS 2.0 an nd
Atom 1.0 fo ormats
Used by • gging Service (http://jrol
Jroller Blog ller.com/)
• Sun Micros system's empployee blogg ogs.sun.com)
ging site (blo )
• US Governm ment's blog (blog.usa.goov)
• ® ons
IBM Lotus® Connectio Blogs (ht ttp://www-
01.ibm.com otus/products
m/software/lo s/connectionns/)
• IBM Develo oper Works blogs
(http://wwww.ibm.com/d developerworks/blogs/)
B n
B2evolution
w olution.net
www.b2evo
b ingual, mult
b2evolution is a multi-li i-blog publis
ti-user, multi shing system written in PHP and ba
m acked
b QL
by a MySQ database. It is distrib buted under the GNU G blic
General Pub License and is avai ilable
w arge. Françoi Planque f
without cha is forked b2ev m
volution from version 0.6.1 of b2\cafelog in 22003.
A
Another pop f
pular fork of b2 is WordPPress.
lopers
Main Devel François Planque
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
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License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website b2evolution.n
www.b net
P
Supported Platforms ache, MySQ PHP)
LAMP (Linux, Apa QL,
Key feature
es • AntiSpam.
• Multiple bloogs.
• Blog skins.
• ers
Multiple use and auth hors.
• stats.
Integrated s
• mework.
Plugin fram
• Advanced c on.
categorizatio
• n nguages.
Localized in several lan
• ards
Web standa compliance.
• Workflow.
• Easy install & upgrade.
l
Used by • mall
Various sm and medi see
ium blogs (s
olution.net/a
http://b2evo ogs.php )
about/userblo
D g
Drupal Blog Module
h al.org
http:// drupa
h l.org/handbo
http://drupal s/blog
ook/modules
D pen
Drupal is a free and op source modular fra amework and Content M t
Management System (CCMS)
w he
written in th programm age
ming langua PHP. It is used as a "back end" system for many diff ferent
t eb
types of We sites, rang mall
ging from sm persona blogs to la
al ate ical
arge corpora and politi sites. Drrupal
b
blog module allows ev red n l
very register user to maintain an individual online web monly
blog (comm
k b as journal or di
known as a blog), often referred to a an online j iary.
lopers
Main Devel B e mmunity
Dries Buytaert , the drupal com
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website drupal.org/ha
drupal.org , http://d odules/blog
andbook/mo
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Supported Platforms
P • LAMP (Lin PHP)
nux, Apache, MySQL, P
• IIS
Windows, I
Key feature
es • Personalizaation
• Role based permission system
• Searching
• Modules
• AntiSpam.
• Multiple bloogs.
• ers
Multiple use and auth hors.
• Advanced c on.
categorizatio
• n nguages.
Localized in several lan
• PI
Blogger AP support
• Content synndication
• News aggre egator
• Permalinks
• Integration with drupal cms
• Easy install & upgrade.
l
Used by • all, es, nd ee
A lot of sma medium and big site portals an blogs: (Se
http://www.drupalsites.net)
E
Elgg
h org
http:// elgg.o
E white label, open source social net
Elgg is a w tworking plaatform. It ooffers bloggi king,
ing, network
c of ng
community, collecting o news usin feeds aggr regation and file sharing features. E
d g Everything ca be
an
ng h ntrols and everything can be cataloge by tags as well.
shared amon users with access con n ed s
lopers
Main Devel Curverider Ltd
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website rg
elgg.or
Supported Platforms
P • nux, Apache, MySQL, P
LAMP (Lin PHP)
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Key feature
es • h
Social graph functionality (relations en
ships betwee users andd
d
other users, objects and sites)
• tes
Multiple sit (or applic cations) per installation
• Easy interna on
ationalisatio support
• Search
• ed
Fine-graine access con ntrols
• ews, allowin for mobile application and
Multiple vie ng e ns
e
embeddable widgets as well as the t w
traditional web browser
view
• Event, plugin and widge APIs
et
Used by • net
eduspaces.n
• University o Brighton (http://comm
of munity.brigh hton.ac.uk/)
• Other educa social networking sites.
ational and s
H
Habari
h riproject.org
http:// habar
H f n og
Habari is a free and open source blo engine wr P tly
ritten in PHP and current supports MySQL,
P L e
PostgreSQL and SQLite for the data nd.
abase backen
lopers
Main Devel y
Habari Community
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License e 0
Apache License 2.0
Website project.org
habarip
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP (Lin PHP)
nux, Apache, MySQL, P
• ghttpd, Nginx
PHP on Lig x
Key feature
es • Modular, ob ed
bject-oriente core for easy extensibbility[3]
• Supports mu base backend
ultiple datab ds[4]
• Uses prepar statemen throughou to protect against SQL
red nts ut L
tacks
injection att
• Media silos to directly a us
access variou ways of m ge,
media storag
like Flickr, Viddler, or t server's f
the filesystem
• Atom Publishing Protoc support
col
• Multiple use (authors) supported
ers )
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• tes
Multiple sit on one in upported
nstallation su
• nt
Support for static conten ("pages")
• Plugin suppport
• Tag support t
• or
Importers fo Serendipity and Word dPress
Used by • Various sm and medi
mall see
ium blogs (s
ks.com/New
http://www.appliedstack bari
westFirst/Hab )
J
Joomla!
h la.org
http:// jooml
J
Joomla! is a free open source con ntent manage m nt
ement system for publishing conten on the W World
W
Wide Web and intran nets. The system inclu es
udes feature such as page cach hing to imp prove
p e, s,
performance RSS feeds printable versions of p
v ogs, website search
pages, news flashes, blo polls, w hing,
a ge
and languag internation nalization. J
Joomla is lic
censed under the GPL, a is the re
r and esult of a fork of
M s the
Mambo. It is written in t PHP pro ogramming la d
anguage and uses the My base.
ySQL datab
lopers
Main Devel omla Core T
The Joo Team
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website joomla.org
Supported Platforms
P • nux, Apache, MySQL, P
LAMP (Lin PHP)
• WAMP (WWindows, Apa QL,
ache, MySQ PHP)
Key feature
es • User managgement
• n
Syndication
• Content maanagement
• on
Localizxatio
• Media mana ager
• Search
Used by • Various sm and medi
mall see
ium blogs (s
ks.com/New
http://www.appliedstack bari
westFirst/Hab )
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M ype
MovableTy
h abletype.org
http:// mova
M ype
Movable Ty is a weblog publi
ishing system develope by the c
m ed x n
company Six Apart. On 12
D 2007, Movab Type was relicense as free so
December 2 ble ed U ublic
oftware under the GNU General Pu
L
License.
lopers
Main Devel Ben Tr Six Apar
rott rt
ng e
Programmin Language HP amic publish
Perl, PH (for dyna hing)
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website letype.org
movabl
Supported Platforms
P • th ostgreSQL, S
Apache wit Perl, php, MySQL, Po SQLite
• LDAP suppport
Key feature
es • Multiple weeblogs
• Standalone content pagees
• File
Asset and F Manager r
• ser
User and us role mana agement
• ble
Customizab templates s
• Tags
• ries tiple categor for articl
Categories, sub-categor and mult ries les
• TrackBack
Used by • washington washingtonp
npost.com (http://voices.w post.com/)
• National Ge eographic
blog.national
(http://ngcb lgeographic.com/ngcblogg/)
• Other blogss
y
Serendipity
w rg
www.s9y.or
Serendipity is a PHP ba d d
ased blog and web-based content ma ystem. It is available under a
anagement sy a
B e. s
BSD license It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite database ba ackends, the Smarty tem mplate
e r buted modif
engine, and a plugin architecture for user contrib fications.
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lopers
Main Devel oper Team
Serendipity Develo
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License cense
BSD lic
Website www.s9y.org
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP
• WAMP
Key feature
es • G
WYSIWYG and HTML editingL
• Built-in, pow ia
werful medi database
• Multiple au gurable perm
uthors, config mission/userg m
group system
• Threaded co omments, ne ested categor ries, post to multiple
categories
• Multiple lannguages (inteernationalizaation)
• gin
Online plug and temp ory
plate reposito for easy p ay
plug-and-pla
installation
• Easy drag-a and-drop side s
ebar plugins organizatio on
• Category-ba ogs
ased sub-blo
• Static Pagess
• Podcasting
• RSS planet/ /aggregator
• m
Robust spam blocking
• Tag support t
• One-click u om
upgrading fro any versi ion
• Can be emb bedded into e b
existing web pages
• Standards-c compliant temmplating thrrough Smarty y
• Remote blogging via XM ML-RPC
• Shared insta n
allations can power mult from just one
tiple blogs fr e
codebase
• ort lier
Native impo from earl blog app plications (WWordPress,
n, g,
Textpattern Moveable Type, bblog etc.)
• Search engi permalink st
ine-friendly p tructure
• TrackBack and Pingbac ck
Used by • A lot of blo (see http:
ogs )
://www.s9y.org/18.html)
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Slash
w code.com
www.slashc
ke ed ge) ree
Slash (a backronym for Slashdot-Lik Automate Storytelling Homepag is the collection of fr
rl a one ms s one
software Per modules and stand-alo program which runs Slashdot, o of the oldest and mo ost
p
popular collaborative weeblogs in existence.
lopers
Main Devel r,
Nandor Jamie McC ott C n,
Carthy, Tim Vroom, Sco Collins, Chris Brown
nathan Pater
and Jon
ng e
Programmin Language Perl
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website m
www.slashcode.com
Supported Platforms
P • Apache HT Server w mod_pe and MySQ database
TTP with erl QL e.
Used by • Slashdot.org
g
T n
Textpattern
h pattern.com
http:// Textp
T
Textpattern is an open source cont tent manage m y
ement system originally developed by Dean A Allen.
W
While it is often listed among web ols,
blogging too its aim is to be a h rpose
high-quality general-pur
c
content mannagement sys e
stem suitable for deploym in man contexts.
ment ny
lopers
Main Devel Textpattern
Team T
ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
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Website ttern.com
Textpat
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP
• WAMP
Key feature
es • Ease of pub ng ML
blishing usin Textile, a text-to-HTM converter r
mits
which perm users to p tent
publish cont without learning
HTML.
• A tag-based template sy
d h
ystem which allows the c creation of
reusable blo ent e, o
ocks of conte and code referred to as "forms", ,
der" mate
and a built-in "tag build to autom their cre eation.
• A privilege- h
-based user hierarchy, al a
llowing for an organized d
f
structure of writers, editors and pub w
blishers to work easily inn
concert.
• A comment ting system, including se ures
everal measu to comb bat
spam.
• Built-in site statistics, in
e ferer tracking
ncluding ref g.
• Syndication of site cont via RSS and Atom.
n tent S
• A robust plu ugin architec cture.
• A built-in C editor.
CSS
• An integrate link mana
ed agement sysstem.
• An integrate image ma
ed anagement s h
system which allows the
with ar
association of images w particula pieces of c content.
• An integrate file mana
ed tem
agement syst which allows files to be o
offered for download.
• Separation o content fr
of ation with a concept of
rom presenta
"sections" ddefined for presentation and "categor
p ntent
ries" for con
organization n.
• UTF-8 publ lishing and s many langua
support for m ages.
Used by • ogs ://welovetxp
A lot of blo (see http: p.com)
W
Wordpress
h press.org/
http://wordp
WordPress is an open s
W . s cial or
source blog publishing application. WordPress is the offic successo of
b which was de
b2\cafelog w eveloped by Michel Valdrighi.
Main Devel
lopers • nweg
Matt Mullen
• Ryan Borenn
• Donncha O Caoimh
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ng e
Programmin Language PHP
OS platform
Cross-p
License G lic
GNU General Publ License
Website wordpress.or
http://w rg/
Supported Platforms
P • LAMP
• WAMP
Key feature
es • rds
Full standar compliannce
• No rebuilding
• Pages system
• Links system m
• Themes
• Cross-blog communicat Trackback an Pingback
tion tools: T nd
• Spam protection
• User manag gement
• Easy installlation
• XML-RPC interface
• Workflow
• ical
Typographi niceties
• text
Intelligent t formatting
• Multiple auuthors
•
Used by • Wordpress.com
• om
FlickOut.co
• Wall Street Journal Mag
gazine (http://magazine..wsj.com/)
• eloper Blog (
Flickr Deve blog/)
(http://code.flickr.com/b
• Samsung NNewsroom (w www.samsun ngusanews.com)
• r sites.
Many other blogs and s
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