Overview
rVooz is an open and collaborative project designed to make dynamic connections between people who have a shared context. rVooz is a software suite being built to make contextual connections, or "contextions," between people who may or may not have prior knowledge of each other. The idea is to bring people together even if they don't have each other in their buddy lists or know each other's phone numbers.
rVooz Projects
There are multiple components that make up the overall rVooz system, each with their own project site:
- The Gateway service accepts registrations via its REST interface, and feeds context "jobs" to pluggable matchers. The Gateway also consumes contextions produced by Matching Engines.
- Matching Engines do the real work in the rVooz system. Currently we are working on a Geo Matcher that can figure out the closest person to your location, and a String Matcher that can compare just about anything.
- Voozers utilize rVooz contextions to distribute temporally dynamic presence and/or initiate collaborative sessions (chat and voice). The current working example, Openfire Voozer, is using a Jabber compatible server and instant messaging as the rVooz link.
- Clients are anything that can produce a context-user registration to the Gateway service. We are currently focusing on using a web application to allow users to register a context but there are no limitations; any application can post to the context API. Current clients in development are the: Eclipse Client, Flex Client, and Geo Client.
Get Started
- Take a peek -> Simple Screencast
- Try the live geo-based client to see a simple demonstration of rVooz functionality. (Coming soon...)
- Get the Geo Demo running on your own box (Coming soon...)
- Read more about the rVooz architecture
Get Involved
- Mailing list
- Submit a bug report
- Submit a patch
- Developer Guidelines
Latest Activity
rVooz Blogs Mar 10 2008, 9:33 am PDT - admin
License
The rVooz project is founded on Open Source licensing. Unless noted otherwise, the rVooz project code is under the Apache License, Version 2. In some cases, specific components will be released under different licenses because of integration requirements. For example, the OpenFire Voozer is licensed under the GPL v2.0 in order to comply with the OpenFire license.