Building Social Applications with StatusNet

StatusNet’s server-side plugins allow developers to make new kinds of social applications, like social music tools, location services, event sharing, or Q&A sites. Coupled with the software’s powerful API and an easy theming system, the StatusNet platform turns social ideas into reality.

In this tutorial, the designers and core developers of StatusNet will show how to develop StatusNet applications, including:

• The event-based server-side plugin system
• Changing menus, layout, and other UI modifications
• Modifying default business rules, roles, authentication and authorization
• Adding new data types, including an overview of the data persistence model and schema modification tools
• Adding new pages to a StatusNet site
• Building and distributing new social event types
• Using the Twitter-like API
• Using the social-focused AtomPub API
• Libraries for mobile, Web, and desktop applications

The tutorial will focus on a real-life example - developing a social music application - with each important topic covered in-depth.