# Announcing Rails application for distributed Social Networking

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-rails-application-for-distributed-social-networking/171306>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 30, 2009, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-rails-application-for-distributed-social-networking/171306 "2009-06-30T10:37:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![vikrant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/cc9497/32.png) [@vikrant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vikrant)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-rails-application-for-distributed-social-networking/171306/1 "2009-06-30T10:37:57Z")

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Hi,  
I’ve been writing a set of standards and its reference implementation  
in Rails about distributed social networking. I hope that publishing a  
post in this group might help in spreading the word at initial stage.

I’ll keep it short.  
This project is basically about making a social network which is  
decentralised and does not depend on a central server. URIs are used  
as unique identities and identify people on the network.

I have named the project “Kopal” and the project homepage is  
[http://code.google.com/p/kopal/](http://code.google.com/p/kopal/)

Description of protocol can be found at following wiki pages -  
[http://code.google.com/p/kopal/wiki/Kopal\_Connect](http://code.google.com/p/kopal/wiki/Kopal_Connect)  
[http://code.google.com/p/kopal/wiki/Kopal\_Feed](http://code.google.com/p/kopal/wiki/Kopal_Feed)

This project is very new (and the idea too, I hope), and I am looking  
for issues, bugs, feature requests, ideas. Please report it if you  
have one at [Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.](http://code.google.com/p/kopal/issues/list)

This is an open standard.

- thanks

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**Author:** ![vikrant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/v/cc9497/32.png) [@vikrant](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/vikrant)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/announcing-rails-application-for-distributed-social-networking/171306/2 "2009-06-30T16:53:33Z")

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