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[d . borodaenko]

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Dmitry Borodaenko <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Samizdat
System name: samizdat
Type: non-GNU

Description:
Samizdat is a generic RDF-based engine for building collaboration and
open publishing web sites. Samizdat will let everyone publish, view,
comment, edit, and aggregate text and multimedia resources, vote on
ratings and classifications, filter resources by flexible sets of
criteria, cooperate and coordinate on any kinds of activities (see
Design Goals document for details). Samizdat intends promote values of
freedom, openness, equality, and cooperation.

Samizdat builds its underlying data model on RDF (Resource Description
Framework), and defines a schema of resource classes and properties for
core concepts of a Samizdat site: member, message, thread, tag,
proposition, vote, version, part, and so on (see Concepts document).
Open nature of RDF allows to add new metadata and new uses of site
resources without effort, and to transparently interoperate with diverse
set of applications supporting this standard.

Samizdat project was inspired by Matthew Arnison\'s Open Publishing
initiative and Active engine used by the IndyMedia.org project, and by
rusty\'s Scoop engine used by Kuro5hin.org and other sites (see
References document).

Samizdat is free software and is built using free software, such as Ruby
programming language and PostgreSQL relational database management
system. All Samizdat source code and documentation can be redistributed
and/or modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the license,
or (at your option) any later version.

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It does not exist yet but I\'m working on it. I am ready to publish design 
documents and specifications that I now actively work on, and some preliminary 
source code.

Other Software Required:
Ruby, PostgreSQL, Apache or other web server with Ruby CGI support.

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