ICommune
iCommune is a proprietary on-line community environment designed specifically for use by selected students of the European Schools. It is a community system Providing a safe environment for some students of the European School, Mol. It also delivers several other services to its members, like secure online storage, email, calendar sharing, web hosting, photo sharing, chat rooms and even cellular services. It can be compared to Apple's .Mac suite of services. Most importantly, however, it employs a proprietary protocol called The Repository to share homework and other files between the students.
Features
- Closed system accessed by the use of an iCommunePassport
- Live searching of the entire system
- High security (only members can go beyond login screen)
Due to the high-security nature of iCommune, members are free to share personal and emotional experiences.
Subsystems
- iCommuneForums (The Platform)
- iCommuneMail
- iCommuneStorage (The Repository)
- iCommuneBot (Qbot)
- iCChat
- iCPhone
- iCCal
Technical
iCommune is hosted on an Apple Xserve and uses WebObjects for its core operation.