Goal of the project

The aim of the project is to make a combination of more or less innovative ideas - to create a multilingual  information space  with specified conditions for access including following features:

- A system of multiple pseudos per login ensuring the possibility of anonymity from a public point of view, while allowing to operations that concerns a user independently of the pseudo used. A system of invitations between users and invitations of new hosts to the network by users of existing hosts.

- Unification of concepts of forum and webmail, by making private forums with different rights to read and write for each forum

- User web pages and wikis;

- A news and calendar system;

- An open database dating system;

- A system of complaints declaration;

Composition of the system

The system consists of following subsystems:

•  Registration by invitation;
• Global Login System;
• Forum;
• Folders
• Forum
• "webmail" reduced to the function sending an email message function, by a link from the contacts list
• Admin panel (with its own different parts concerning the different components);
• Contacts list (will later include trust declarations);

• Translations;
• Dating system;

•  User’s web-pages and wikis;
•  News and calendar

• Calculations on trust
• Money system (more difficult, not to start now but only after one year or two)

Registration

The system admin can choose whether the invitations form is either

• publicly accessible

• or accessed by invitation from an existing user of the same site. 

In any case, inviter and invited should automatically appear in each other’s contacts list.

Invitation tree is recorded, and can be explored by administrator. With this tree it is possible to track the inviters of spammers or of those making other problems, and to block their invitation right.

Global Login System

We have a network of independent servers with some common software installed, each having the list of others with their PGP public keys.

Each user has only one account defined by login/pass on only one of the servers, that is called the home server of this user. Connecting to his home server, the user access his user board that centralises a number of functions, especially bookmarks and the list of current open sessions at remote servers.

By this account the user manages at the same time the data and operations that he does under several pseudos.

This way having one account on one site is enough for doing anything all over the web without “registering” anymore.

Inclusion of a new site in the network is by invitation with invitations tree tracked by other admins.

Forums

One important goal of the forums is to make email obsolete by developing private forums to replace it, where each forum would have its own rights table that would allow for communication between users registered at separate sites through the global login system.

The necessary separation between them, is due to the fact that for every given user, the folders are in the user home site while the forum can be at a GLS remote sitee

(In fact, the folders system could as well be used to relate to other things than forums.)