Difference between revisions of "CarPooling"

Revision as of 11:52, 31 October 2011

CarPooling (also known as car-sharing, ride-sharing, lift-sharing and covoiturage), is the process of sharing car journeys so that more than one person travels in a car.

Project Description

This project's aim is to design, develop and -hopefully- provide the general public with a complete and comprehensible service to promote, participate and organise carpooling.

Technology Principles

Since this project's aim it to target the largest possible audience, technologies used must be open-source and facilitate openness in choice. As such, the software created from the project shall promote the open nature of data and flexibility in choice.

Components

• Database

 PostgreSQL
 MySQL
 MariaDB

• API

 python django - piston
 

• Website

• Applications

 HTML5
 Open for EVERYONE to take a bite at :)
 

Resources

• Etherpad (updated quite often):

http://pad.hackerspace.gr/p/CarPooling

• Discussion mailing list (open to all, especially the general public):

http://groups.google.com/group/oscp-discussion

• Development mailing list (open to all interested in helping with the development of the project codebase):

http://groups.google.com/group/oscp-dev

• Github:

https://github.com/hsgr/carpooling