{"id":27,"date":"2005-02-04T22:51:45","date_gmt":"2005-02-05T03:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2005-02-04T22:51:45","modified_gmt":"2005-02-05T03:51:45","slug":"local-presence-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/27\/local-presence-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Presence Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted recently about Zeroconf, which allows for automated service discovery. One aspect of this which has already been exploited is the ability to have a local network of presence information, something like what iChat does to announce users who are online. However, it also passes along some simple FOAF information with it. I can&#8217;t remember who wrote the tool. If I recall correctly, it was shellac\/Damien&#8230; ah, here we go. <a href=\"http:\/\/rdfweb.org\/people\/damian\/foaffinger\/\">foaffinger<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Small HTTP server combined with zeroconf shares data.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to expand this out a bit&#8230; now that I&#8217;m starting to know how to deal with Python a bit better, I might be able to do something with <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/pyzeroconf\">pyzeroconf<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/infomesh.net\/pyrple\/\">pyrple<\/a>. I&#8217;d probably want to learn something about graphics too&#8230; wxPython requires an install. Are there any &#8220;built in&#8221; GUIs for Python? I don&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, local FOAF browsing of full data rather than just a subset would be nice. Not too hard, I don&#8217;t think, since Python makes almost everything simple. Of course, there is the problem that there&#8217;s no one that I share my network with&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Ah well, I do have 2 macs, 2 linux boxes, and 2 windows laptops in the house now. (Wow! An even split. Nifty.) I can try it out somehow or another.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of rambling. Usually I&#8217;d reserve this for noets, but I wanted a tie in from the Zeroconf post I just made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted recently about Zeroconf, which allows for automated service discovery. One aspect of this which has already been exploited is the ability to have a local network of presence information, something like what iChat does to announce users who are online. However, it also passes along some simple FOAF information with it. I can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foaf","category-zeroconf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}