Re: [Social-discuss] Looking how to help

[Ted Smith]

On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 19:00 -0500, Max Shinn wrote:
> The other advantage to this is that services will start popping up all
> over the place that use one's GNU Social identity.  GNU Social, then,
> would consist of three components:
> 1. The core - the identity server, which manages the most basic functions,
> and keeps track of other sites using its identity
> 2. The framework - a set of libraries for various programming languages
> that make it easy to develop apps that use GNU Social
> 3. The vital applications - a few "official" applications for GNU Social,
> such as a photo gallery, group server, etc.  All of these would function
> without the others, so individuals can choose whether or not they want to
> use each component. 

All of these fit into what I've been calling the "core" in my design of
a GNU Social node - though (2) and (3) seem like different instances of
the same "plugin"-type thing.

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