Syndie is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 cross-platform computer application to syndicate data over a variety of anonymous

Anonymous P2P

An anonymous P2P communication system is a peer-to-peer distributed application in which the nodes or participants are anonymous or pseudonymous...

 and non-anonymous computer networks.

Features

Syndie can operate in a manner similar to blogs, newsgroups, forums

Internet forum

An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. They differ from chat rooms in that messages are at least temporarily archived...

, and other content tools; it provides for various uses of syndication, including combinations of publicly or privately accessible data, and one or multiple contributors to a syndicated repository. The repositories themselves may be syndicated over a combination of anonymous services (such as I2P

I2P

I2P is a mixed-license, free and open source project building an anonymous network .The network is a simple layer that applications can use to anonymously and securely send...

, Tor

Tor (anonymity network)

Tor is a system intended to enable online anonymity. Tor client software routes Internet traffic through a worldwide volunteer network of servers in order to conceal a user's location or usage from someone conducting network surveillance or traffic analysis...

, etc.), and non-anonymous services (such as WWW or Usenet

Usenet

Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...

 archives). The program is designed to provide sufficient security across its features, so that it is worthwhile for a user to run it over an anonymized network.

Syndie can be used via the command line, with a graphical user interface under development.

Future development

Syndie is currently (2006) an alpha release. In addition to providing the graphical user interface, goals for the alpha development include supporting plaintext and HTML syndication to several types of repository including Freenet

Freenet

Freenet is a decentralized, censorship-resistant distributed data store originally designed by Ian Clarke. According to Clarke, Freenet aims to provide freedom of speech through a peer-to-peer network with strong protection of anonymity; as part of supporting its users' freedom, Freenet is free and...

 and HTTP.http://syndie.i2p.net/roadmap.html No expected release date is provided.

Plans for the beta release involve improving performance, as well as ensuring usable levels of functionality and accessibility. Again, no expected release date is provided.

Following on this, the 1.0 release is meant to offer finalized levels of the above as well as debugging and associated documentation.

The 2.0 release is meant to include peer-to-peer syndication, search capabilities, full database encryption, and other features. No release date is provided.

External links

• Official website
• Syndie forum at I2P forums
• Syndie at infoAnarchy