Rideshare

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Rideshare
( documents • site API • permissions • data structure • database • RSS API • blah blah )

Let's create a ride share API.

An open Rideshare database.
A Rideshare site API for all the participating car sharing sites and
A Rideshare RSS API for all sorts of websites.

Imagine a "lifts to trento" box on your homepage.

This wiki space was chosen because it's open, available under a free license and, well, Morgan is a laid back Ozzie. In the future we'll probably have to move it elsewhere though, somehow Crash at Mine doesn't seem appropriate for a ridshare system ;)

1 Subversion
2 People interested
3 Documents
4 Related ideas, projects

[edit] Subversion

MrTweek set up a repo:

svn checkout svn://yoshi.mega2000.de/rideshare

Contact him at mrtweek [at] flupps.net if you want RW access.

[edit] People interested

Meinhard
Guaka
Paolo
Anu
Morgan
MrTweek
Dante
you?

[edit] Documents

I think it would be great to learn from past failures. There is a very interesting paper titled "Pilot Tests of Dynamic Ridesharing" which documents 3 failures: "I developed the Ride Now software systems, and I conducted or was closely involved in three pilot tests of the Ride Now system".

Also read the very interesting and reasonable paper by Paul Resnick: Impersonal SocioTechnical Capital and the scenario document (pdf).