NING and FACEBOOK interfaces to CES - wanted

[Dawn Pilatowicz]

Calling all programmers:
- do you have experience writing plug-ins
- we need interfaces for Facebook and NING
- CES widget (for each exchange)
- holds account number and password (preferably uses the FB or NING password)

Please email dawn or tim @ces.org.za

[Chris Caston]

What do we want the apps to do?

[Dawn Pilatowicz]

Pick up the password used to access FB or NING - pick up or embed the CES account number into the widget.
Essentially be able to access the CES site at the click of a button without having to log in again.
And anything else you can think of!

An easy way for people to add a button to their FB and NING profiles

[Chris Caston]

I think a ning app would be a better idea than a facebook app. We would get drowned in the tens of thousands of other facebook apps not to mention the noise and utter crap that does the rounds on facebook.

I don't know if any ning apps are available yet but it would be awesome if we were one of the first.

The documentation can be found on http://developer.ning.com/

[Dawn Pilatowicz]

So are you a developer and can you do this?

[Chris Caston]

No, but I could have a crack at it. I'm a call out computer tech by trade but I have learned the basics of programming at a young age and dabbled around a bit with web development.

If I can find some example open social applications and I assume most of them are open source there might be one I could learn from and or modify.

http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/

[Chris Caston]

There is also a proposal for an opensocial currency API that is discussed on the open money ning site.

http://openmoney.ning.com/forum/topics/google-opensocial-virtual

https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfjcf7w4_10ddst9xd9&hl=en

We should consider if community-exchange is going to collaborate with or be inter-tradable with other virtual or meta currencies.

I think we should stay away from virtual currencies like Ven though where people buy them using "real money". They of course are run for a profit motive and not to benefit the movement towards economic post-scarcity, even if they did start out meaning well they are to close to the existing and soon-to-be old order of things.

Whichever way we decide to go we should try to learn as much as we can from other projects and find out what projects and ideas other people are working on in this area.

[Chris Caston]

Just as a follow up to what's been happening. I went to create a sandbox site and so far i'm getting a message saying the site is under maintenance. Once it's up an running i'll start learning how to make ning apps.

[Dawn Pilatowicz]

Look forward to some apps!