trojanspike / ampify

Ampify is an open and decentralised social platform. See the README for more info and join in!

This is the repo for Ampify — an open and decentralised social platform.
For comparison, perhaps imagine a bastardised mix between Git, Facebook,
Unix, IRC, App Engine, Xanadu and Wikis.

The goal for the final 1.0 release is to have a fully decentralised "internet
operating system" style platform. We're currently working towards an initial
release for the end of this year — see the planfile.

Getting Started

$ make
$ source environ/ampenv.sh

Resources

For more info, please see the doc directory or visit:

• online docs: http://ampify.it
• mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/ampify
• plan file: http://ampify.it/planfile.html
• irc channel: irc://irc.freenode.net/esp, irc logs

Contribute

To contribute any patches, simply fork this repository using GitHub
and create a new branch for your work:

$ git checkout -b name-for-your-patch

And to submit it for review, make sure you've added yourself to the
AUTHORS file and then run:

$ git review submit

That's it! Thanks.

Please Note

This is very much a work in progress and not much works yet — faster
development is dependent on your involvement =)

Credits

All work by the Ampify Authors in this repository has been placed
into the public domain. The major contributors so far have been:

• tav — creator of Ampify and BDFL.

• Mamading Ceesay, evangineer — co-architect.

• James Arthur, thruflo — implemented various trust map
  iterations; dolumns; invented thruflo transactions.

• Sean B. Palmer, sbp — implemented various aspects including
  field trees; historian; even coined the name Ampify.

• Mathew Ryden, oierw — designed many aspects of the overlay
  network, crypto and networking protocols.

• Yan Minagawa, yncyrydybyl — pioneered experimentation with
  many of the Ampify concepts and co-designed the interface.

• Maciej Fijalkowski, fijal — implemented the bridge between
  WebKit and PyPy-based interpreters; JIT sandbox.

• Øyvind Selbek, talonlzr — designed aspects of the service
  architecture, including video encoding.

• David Pinto, happyseaurchin — co-designed the micro-syntax
  and elements of the minimal user interface.

• Jeff Archambeault, jeffarch — the glue that binds us all;
  Chief Shailar.

See the authors, credits and pecu allocations for a full listing
of all the awesome people who've helped over the years.

— Enjoy, tav <[email protected]>