Barnraiser is very happy to announce the release of AROUNDMe version 1.0.,the perfect solution for anyone wishing to create a collaborative social space on the Web.

You can think of AROUNDMe as a MySpace / Ning clone, but using OpenID. With AROUNDMe you can create one or many webspaces (web sites). In each webspace you get tools such as a wiki, blog and forum from which you can build your social space!

You can make your webspace private meaning that only those people that you invite in can see your webspace or open meaning that anyone can see it.

With open webspaces anyone with an OpenID can connect to your webspace and join in the fun if you have given them permissions to contribute.

AROUNDMe is free. You can download it and make your own webspace, webspaces for your family and friends or a wider community of people.

Features

• Create single or multiple webspaces.
• Theme selection at creation builds pre-enabled webspaces.
• Each webspace can have multiple web pages.
• Multiple plugins can be included on each web page.
• Make webspaces private (invitation only) or public.
• Plugin API (included plugins are a wiki, blog, forum, poll, events and a guest book plugin).
• OpenID accessibility – no more separate passwords and user names for each webspace!
• Configurable MIME type file upload and storage.
• Full CSS and HTML control for easy web page creation.
• Multilingual interface (defaults to OpenID language settings if language pack is installed).

AROUNDMe is a GNU package licensed under the General Public License (GPL). Further information: http://www.barnraiser.org/

This announcement is almost a week old. I missed because on previous vists to the barnraiser website it looked like things were dead. I was looking into alternatives to Drupal again this evening and surfed to the site only to find it freshened and a new stable release of Aroundme.

Happy Publishing!

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