SOCIAL NETWORK - Social Network to promote peace

Since references to our site/project started to spread on social bookmarking/news sites, we received a few questions about MyPacis.com and. If you got here by clicking to the link we sent you as reply, keep reading and you will find all the answers

-  SmileGrid.com and OS in MyPacis.com

MyPacis.com is based on SmileGrid.com social network, which uses Boonex Dolphin, and several other open source solutions, as Pligg, WordPress Multi User, Scuttle, etc. Our goal is to provide a powerful tool to promote peace and freedom, in different languages and not just English. No need to reinvent the wheel, so we are going to achieve our goal by leveraging what already exists and improving it.

- OS MyPacis.com: why, what, where, who, when

As everyone familiar with karma knows, to reduce it to “street-smartness”: what goes around, comes around. So, following the example of the generous people who made this site possible (if you ever contributed to localize a WordPress .mo file or some codelines to Pligg, chances are your work is now one of the pillars in promoting peace and freedom) we want to contribute to a decentralized CMS and communication tool, empowering people to speak freely, wherever they are. For thir reason, developing a community devoted to promoting peace by linking people is not enough. Even the next step, hosting other communities on our platform, is not enough. Distributing the platform on open source basis is what we need to do. And, as soon as the core components are in place, you will find updates here and will be able to start using/testing/improving MyPacis.com OS.

- Further questions

Feel free to write us! The best way to understand a service is to use it, so feel free to register and use it yourself!

MyPacis.com is an open source, integrated, multilingual social network. MyPacis.com offers free blogs, social bookmarks and other Web 2.0  services. Once the integration among modules and existing open source solution has been finalized, the platform can be used by other sites to promote peace and freedom of speech, especially in Europe and Asia.

If you have advices, ideas, questions, etc. about the site, please drop us an email to:

paco (AT) mypacis.com

If you want to submit or suggest scripts you found online, please write to

php (AT) mypacis.com

Generally, please make sure to make the subject of your email as clear as possible. If you write with ideas, please write “Ideas: +title” in the subject. If you have media enquiries, please write “Media: +MediaName”. If you want to explore partnerships opportunities, write “Partnership: +title”. And so on.

We do not take part in link exchange programs. If you like our service and want to contribute to its goals, we will be thankful if you consider to link to us. But please do not ask for reciprocal links. On the other hand, if you are aware of initiatives promoting peace and freedom, and would like us to feature them on this site, we are happy to hear about them.

Thanks!

If you developed applications in PHP which you consider useful for this site and its audience, just drop us an email to:

php @ Our Domain Name (see it in the browser

Some examples of useful applications are:

- integrated userID: unified to login for Boonex Dolphin, Scuttle, Pligg, PHPBB, WordPress MU, etc.

- mash-up scripts: for merging different Web 2.0 services

- automatic translation: into languages currently not supported

Also, if you find useful scripts online and would like them integrated into your user panel, let us know. Same applies to localization of applications: if you wrote, or found, a good .MO file for WordPress MU or other translations, let us know. Themes are also welcome.

Just remember this is an open source platform: everything you donate for this site, may be used and redistributed to third parties who want to use this content management solution/communication tool. The reward is the same for all of us: we get a better MyPacis.com and support peace and freedom of speech, all around the world.