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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a1b3e1cbf --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +Lorea +===== + +(Re-)Taking the Networks! + +The [lorea](https://lorea.org) code aims at providing individuals and teams with privacy-aware, security-conscious, and user-controlled-data collaborative tools over the Web, and around it. + +The main application is based on [Elgg](http://elgg.org), a PHP-based social networking platform. Lorea extends it with plugins to provide better privacy features, including strong encryption, *OStatus-based federation* with other Lorea/Elgg installations and OStatus-compliant projects, etc. + +It also integrates other popular technologies such as [DokuWiki](http://www.dokuwiki.org), [Etherpad](http://etherpad.org), [XMPP](http://xmpp.org), etc., and provides *GPG-encrypted mailing-lists* to groups. + +### Installation + +Our code is divided in two git repositories: elgg and lorea-plugins. You can get it using the following commands. + +<pre> +$ git clone git://gitorious.org/lorea/elgg.git +$ cd elgg +$ git remote add lorea-plugins git://gitorious.org/lorea/lorea-plugins.git +$ git pull lorea-plugins master +</pre> + +You can update the code to the latest release using: + +<pre> +$ git pull origin master +$ git pull lorea-plugins master +</pre> |