Gidepark – is the first online Russian civil society. The site is driven by mature people who have active life position and who want to improve life in Russia. The site has two main parts – public and private. Public one is like tv set – main Russian news are being published by users (like on digg.com). 500 comments to news is the normal situation for this site’s section. Another part – is like a flat where friends’ news and activities are being shared very similar to facebook). Gidepark is the fully functional social network with all required tools and features (like communities, private messaging, friends, guests, notifications and so on).
Technologies
LAMP (Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL), Zend Framework, ExtJS, jQuery, EmailMarketer integration, integration with Sphinx (search engine), front-end and back-end optimization (e-accelerator, memcache, nginx).
Timeframe & workload
8 man-months
