[needs-packaging] Laconica

[Fabián Rodríguez]

Laconica is an open source microblogging server written in PHP that implements the OpenMicroBlogging standard. Laconica provides open, inter-service distributed communications between microblogging communities. It helps people in a community, company, or group to exchange short (140 character) messages over the Web. Users can choose which people to "follow" and receive only their friends' or colleagues' status messages. It provides a similar service to sites like Twitter, Jaiku and Plurk.

Enterprises and individuals can install and control their own services and data. Its first deployment powers the identi.ca openmicroblogging service.

Current version: 0.8 - http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/Laconica_0.8.0
Website: http://laconi.ca/trac/ (software), http://identi.ca/ (first deployment)
License: GNU Affero General Public License (AGPLv3)
GIT: http://gitorious.org/projects/laconica

Install guide for Ubuntu 8.04 server (based on Laconica 0.6.3): http://laconi.ca/trac/wiki/Ubuntu%208.04%20Server%20Quick%20Start

Features:
    * Updates using a Jabber or Gtalk client, and probably any other XMPP client
    * OpenID and Facebook Connect authentication
    * Supports Federation, which provides the ability to subscribe to notices by users on a remote service through the OpenMicroBlogging protocol
    * SMS updates and notifications
    * File attachment support
    * A Twitter-compatible API
    * Hashtags
    * Multilingual interface (using Gettext)
    * Cross-posting to Twitter
    * Facebook integration
    * Groups
    * Automatic URL-shortening

Upcoming priority features:

    * More Ajax-y interface
    * Maps
    * Cross-posting to Jaiku, Plurk, etc.
    * Pull messages from Twitter, Plurk, Jaiku, etc.
    * Image, video, and audio notices