While working on shindig i had the need for a test social network site to test the code, and as such a new project was born, to create a simple but full featured social networking site.

Since a project deserves a name that's more original then 'shindig example SNS', I named it "Partuza". Partuza is slang for party, just like shindig is slang for party too (this is in the line of thinking that both ajax and comet being cleaning agents.. it's hard to think of a good name ok! :)) You can find the project page at: http://code.google.com/p/partuza/ The project has a number of goals:

• Have a test case for shindig, for me personally it's been quite useful to test php shindig already.
• Have something working to show off to potential users of shindig, might work well as a 'live example' site of shindig at some point. Extended implication of this is that i want to try to support every feature open social and shindig have to offer.
• Serve as a practical example of 'how to use shindig' for (potential and existing) SNS's that want to adopt open social and use shindig to do so.
• Allow gadget developers to develop and test on a private, fast and local open social service.. this will probably make their lives a lot easier.

You can see a live example of what's been done so far at: http://www.partuza.nl It's still work in progress, my todo list currently consists of:

• Activity streams (save, retrieve & show)
• Profile editing (atm its just name, email and passwd)
• Simple messaging (notify's, messages, inbox, etc)
• Extended container support (requestShareApp, requestSendMessage, etc)
• Keep up with open social developments to support everything open social has to offer (but nothing else)

The goal is -not- to make a complete fully features social network site with all bells and whistles (who knows that might change some day but right now it's not), partially because i simply don't have the spare time to make a bells-and-whistles type of site, and because it's outside of the scope of the project's intentions (see above: "Goals of this project"), the goal is to show and support every open social and shindig feature, not to make a new SNS. There are some simple instructions on how to set this up on: http://code.google.com/p/partuza/wiki/GettingStarted And there's a mailing list where you can participate & ask questions:

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