Diaspora will be Open Sourced on 15th September

Diaspora Team announced in it’s blog that they are going to open source Diaspora on 15th September. In the Blog Disapora team said “We have been coding. We have Diaspora working, we like it, and it will be open-sourced on September 15th.”

Diaspora is a upcoming social networking software, being developed by Daniel Grippi, Maxwell Salzberg, Raphael Sofaer and Ilya Zhitomirskiy. It’s developers are describing it as “The privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network.”. Many peoples are calling this upcoming software “A Facebook Alternative”. But it may be difficult for Diaspora to become Facebook Alternative because Facebook is number 1 Social networking site and has 500 Million Active Users (July 2010).

Diaspora Team also said that they have pushed back some technical features like plugins and APIs in favor of simple and high value features. But their original goals will remain same, and these features are still in their timeline.

Its developers are saying that they will not stop development after the release and they will continue to develop and maintain Diaspora as a long term project. They also said that they will post another update about 15th September soon.