Features

Goals

This is the full program; see below for what v0.1 will have.

Architecture

• client-server architecture
• servers (hosted by local communities) form a robust network with a protocol based on TCP/IP and redundancy of nodes

Knowledge sharing

• knowledge is modeled as objects, more precisely, we have these (k)nowledge categories
  • kclass
  • kinstance
  • kcopy (same kinstance, only minor differences like different place or color)
  • krelation
  • ktopic
  • user
  • group
  • space+time
  • tasks
  • searches
• each object resides on a master node and a few slaves
• objects have have ACLs

Trust, privacy

• between communities and thus between server nodes
• local communities take care of privacy of its members

Communication

• simple instant messaging between users (maybe jabber integration)
• anything that can be read can be commented

Technology

• use websockets and alternatively XHR (with one long polling connection)
• designed to run on GNU/Linux systems or other systems supporting postgresql and python and having a broadband connection to the internet

Implementation

This is the rough roadmap.

v0.1

v0.1 will be the first developer release with these features:

• working client-server framework
  • modular server architecture using python multiprocessing and rarely threading (controller, request handler, workers, cache)
  • modular client architecture
  • base client-server protocol (JSON)
  • session handling
• kclasses: CRUD
• kclasses: inheritance
• kclasses: texts
• kclasses: various data types
• kinstances, kcopies: CRUD
• kinstances, kcopies: texts
• kitem managers (internally)
• caching

v0.2

• undo
• krelations
• comments

v0.3

• access control
• users
• groups

v0.4

• searching

v0.5

• command line client

up to v1.0

• The current version of the server software is still standalone.
• There is just one client software package wich is not suited for smartphones.
• The client horribly violates accessibility principles (WCAG); other clients will have to be written.