How you can get involved:
We need people behind this movement.
Application Developers:
We've provided all the tools necessary for you to tie your application into the first publicly available OpenFriends Provider located at getopenfriends.com. You can use the open-source implementation to roll your own provider, or build applications that leverage the service:
Technologists:
We've built the first version – but we need your help to shape the future of OpenFriends. Get your Github account and start coding:
http://github.com/citrusbyte/openfriends
http://github.com/citrusbyte/openfriends-php
Evangelism
It is important to share our vision with others. We're actively recruiting a community of evangelists. We need to actively reach out to existing businesses and media to share the value of leveraging a contact sharing standard: OpenFriends.
Business
There is tremendous value in building the next generation of social, community and business websites leveraging the power that OpenFriends provides. Monolithic applications will be quickly overcome by highly specific niche applications that excel at solving a specific problem: the rest of the work is distributed to other apps that focus on solving problems in their own distinct spaces.