CarPooling
From Hackerspace.gr
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