AROUNDMe可以用于创建一个基于因特网的社区，并且可以配置成基于封闭友谊或开放社会网络的社区。如此一来，即可构建基于组织和团队的群组、友谊的完美平台。
所包含功能:
*成员Wiki,博客,事件,任务,投票
*用户多重资料
*群组Wiki,博客,事件,任务,投票
*可自定义社会网络
*真正简单的发布工具
*成员和群组权限控制系统
*RSS
*时事通讯
*可配置文件上传
*频道
*标签
*技能查找
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AROUNDMe; the ONLY free social networking and group collaboration platform !
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AROUNDMe is the perfect solution for community builders wishing to bring together multiple mutual interest groups within a shared knowledge network.
Features
Membership Wiki, Blog, Events, Tasks, Polls.
User multiple profiles.
Group Wiki, Blog, Events, Tasks, Polls.
Customisable social networking.
Really simple publishing tools.
membership and group access control system.
RSS
Newsletters
Configurable file upload
Channels
Tagging
Technical specification
AROUNDMe is a 'web standard' product. It will work with standard web server configurations such as a GNU/Linux distribution running Apache and PHP services or a Microsoft server running IIS or PHP. These are available from most internet service providers (ISP) should you wish to host externally.
AROUNDMe has a small hard disk footprint (appox 3mb). The amount of space given to each user for file storage is configurable at installation. Awarding large disk quotas to users will increase your disk space usage which if with an ISP will increase your costs.
AROUNDMe is easy to install and configure for personel trained in server administration.
Platform
AROUNDMe requires PHP version 4.x. PHP can be used on all major operating systems, including GNU/Linux, many Unix variants (including HP-UX, Solaris and OpenBSD), Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, RISC OS, and probably others. PHP has also support for most of the web servers today. This includes Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Personal Web Server, Netscape and iPlanet servers, Oreilly Website Pro server, Caudium, Xitami, OmniHTTPd, and many others. For the majority of the servers PHP has a module, for the others supporting the CGI standard, PHP can work as a CGI processor.
Database
We use the ADOdb (stands for Active Data Objects Data Base), a database wrapper library. giving AROUNDMe support to MySQL, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Firebird, Informix, Oracle, MS SQL 7, Foxpro, Access, ADO, Sybase, FrontBase, DB2, SAP DB, SQLite and generic ODBC database software.
PHP extensions
GDLib 2.x needs to be installed
Add-ons
We have optional form spellchecking using Aspell - http://aspell.sourceforge.net/
Cron is a simple program which schedules events on the server. We optionally use it to send bulk newsletters. We recommend that you configure for cron if you wish to send bulk newsletters.