Some systems analyzed, thinking about protocols
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009My second physical meeting at SoNET - FBK is about to end. Today we discussed about applications that implements Dynamic Carpooling Systems on mobile phones. The list is hosted on the following Wiki page: http://www.opensocialcapital.com/dynamic_carpooling/wiki/index.php?title=Systems_Analyzed.
We also discussed about a protocol to be adopted for defining rides, to be used by the system in message passing. We took a look at the draft of OpenTrip Core, which currently defines the data structure only. There is also a tiny proposal of Dan Kirshner at his dynamicridesharing.org Wiki, called OpenDRS. We are also looking at Google Transit, because there is also the idea of starting a prototype that offers public transport rides, to help us reaching a critical mass.
An idea could be a merge of those proposals into a fork of OpenTrip Core, that is currently stopped and misses lots of features.
Next time we will discuss about our system, called temporary Dycapo, and I will prepare some software engineering documents.