This BoF is part of the Drupal Social Initiative looking at abstracting Social Networking functionality in Drupal.
Thursday, October 02, 2014 - 11:45 to 13:00 Room G108 · Capgemini
Objectives

• Provide a common interface to access common functions across multiple social networks. Making it easier for:
  • Developers to create and maintain social network integration modules.
  • Site builders to utilise social network integration modules that harmoniously work together.
  • Users to access social networks functionality.
• Let's work on clarifying these objectives.
• There are numerous modules for Drupal social networking integration.
  • Connecting with other networks
  • Pulling in content
  • Pushing out content
  • What else?

See the Abstracting Social Networking functionality in Drupal stack diagram.

Code review

• We should be able to abstract these into a social networking API
  • OAuth for authorisation
  • Pluggable layer for
    • Notifications
    • Pulling in and using content
    • Posting to other networks
    • What else?

Future directions (need to add website links)

• Federated social networking
  • WebID
  • OStatus
    • PubSubHubbub
  • OpenSocial
    • Portable Contacts
• What else?

Use Cases

• What do we want to be able to do with social networks?
  • Downloading friends' lists
  • Posting pages
  • What else?