Giraffe is a personal "social network" node. It offers a "news feed" like activity reading and publishing system, using open protocols to integrate with other installations of Giraffe and similar software.

Giraffe isn't anywhere near done, but you can check out what's here, such as it is.

Giraffe is a Django application. To use it, you will need:

• Python 2.x (2.5 or greater)
• virtualenv and pip
• An AMQP server such as RabbitMQ

To install giraffe for easy development:

1. Check out giraffe to a place on disk.
2. Create a new virtual environment.
3. From the giraffe checkout, run: pip install -e .
4. Create a new Django project: django-admin.py startproject website
5. Configure some additional Django project settings, as shown in example/settings.py.
6. Configure your project's urlconf to include the giraffe apps' urlconfs, as shown in example/urls.py.