Oxwall
Oxwall is free and open source community software distributed under the Common Public Attribution License. It is written in PHP and is used as a platform for social networking and community sites.
The default Oxwall software core contains basic community features that include uploading/sharing content, friends networking, profile and page layout customization, user and content management, built-in SEO. Oxwall comes with several default themes that are customizable with admin dashboard tools.
The Oxwall core is extensible by plugins. The plugins are available at the Oxwall Store, and are provided both by native and third-party developers. Plugin installation is performed via the admin dashboard.
Oxwall software requires a web server capable of running PHP 5.2.6 or higher, Apache 2 or higher and MySQL 5.0 or higher.
On Mar 31, 2011 Oxwall was added to Softaculous software collection, and is now available for quick installation on any hosting account supported by Softaculuos hosting partners.
History
Oxwall software up to version 1.1 was developed as a project of Skalfa LLC, a commercial organization.
In 2009 the company started private testing of the new platform. In January 2010 Skalfa launched hosted social network builder Wall.fm powered by Oxwall. Oxwall was released as an open source social network software project in August 2010.
The plan to release the source code of Oxwall was to create competitive advantage for Skalfa's Wall.fm. Eventually it appeared that Oxwall itself quickly started gaining popularity.
In 2011 Skalfa stakeholders decided to make Oxwall a full-featured open source project. Oxwall Foundation was established to take the reign and accepted Skalfa's donation of intellectual rights and Oxwall trademark.
Oxwall foundation
Oxwall Foundation is a non-profit unincorporated organization established to curate the development of Oxwall software and define the long-term vision and goals of the project.
Since Oxwall itself had been born in Skalfa headquarters Oxwall Foundation staff was the original Skalfa team that worked on the project.
Executive board
- Emil Sarnogoev, Chairman
- Nurlan Dzhumakaliev, VP Technology
- Denis Juikov, VP Operations
Development team
- Sardar Madumarov
- Sergey Kambalin
- Egor Bulgakov
- Evgeniy Podyachev
- Zarif Safiullin
- Yulka Sarnogoeva
Skalfa LLC remains the most significant donator of Oxwall Foundation in terms of funds and development force.
Community
Oxwall software has a community of users and developers interacting on the Oxwall Market and forum. Oxwall users can get support assistance, report bugs and post feature suggestions on the forum moderated by the Oxwall staff.
Plugin development
Oxwall software provides an advantage of simplified programming interface, which allows to develop and integrate plugins without making changes to the main core. Oxwall software is supplied with all necessary documentation on plugin development.