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{{Infobox software
| name                   = Movim
| logo                   = Movim-logo.svg
| screenshot             = 
| author                 = Timothée Jaussoin
| developer              = The Movim Project
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| programming language   = [[Organization:PHP|PHP]]
| genre                  = Social network service
| license                = [[Software:GNU Affero General Public License|AGPL-3.0-or-later]]<ref name="Movim AGPL-3.0-or-later">{{cite web|url=https://github.com/movim/movim/blob/master/public/index.php|title=Movim AGPL-3.0-or-later|website=[[GitHub]]|date=13 December 2021}}</ref><ref name="Movim AGPL-3.0" />
| website                = {{URL|https://movim.eu}}
}}

'''Movim''' (My Open Virtual Identity Manager) is a [[Distributed social network|distributed social network]] built on top of [[XMPP]], a popular open standards communication protocol. Movim is a free and open source software licensed under the [[Software:GNU Affero General Public License|AGPL-3.0-or-later]] license.<ref name="Movim AGPL-3.0-or-later" /><ref name="Movim AGPL-3.0">{{cite web|url=https://github.com/movim/movim/blob/master/COPYING|title=Movim, License|website=[[GitHub]]|accessdate = 10 January 2016}}</ref> It can be accessed using existing XMPP clients and [[Software:Jabber.org|Jabber]] accounts.

The project was founded by Timothée Jaussoin in 2010. It is maintained by Timothée Jaussoin and Christine Ho.<ref name="Movim, ZDNET France Article">{{cite web|url=http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/reseaux-sociaux-decentralises-movim-peut-il-reussir-la-ou-diaspora-a-echoue-39791588.htm|title=Talk with Movim Developers|date = 29 June 2013|accessdate = 24 October 2013}}</ref>

==Concept==
Movim is a distributed social networking platform. It builds an abstraction layer for communication and data management while leveraging the strength of the underlying XMPP protocol.

XMPP is a widely used open standards communication platform. Using XMPP allows the service to interface with existing XMPP clients like [[Software:Conversations|Conversations]], [[Software:Pidgin|Pidgin]], [[Software:Xabber|Xabber]] and Jappix. Users can directly login to Movim using their existing Jabber account.

Movim addresses the privacy concerns related to centralized social networks by allowing users set up their own server (or "pod") to host content; pods can then interact to share status updates, photographs, and other social data.<ref name="podsetup">{{cite web|url=https://github.com/movim/movim/wiki/Install-Movim|title=Install Movim|website=[[GitHub]]|date=29 March 2017|accessdate = 19 May 2017}}</ref> Users can export their data to other pods or offline allowing for greater flexibility.<ref name="podsetup" />

It allows its users to host their data with a traditional web host, a cloud-based host, an ISP, or a friend. The framework, which is being built on [[Organization:PHP|PHP]], is a [[Free software|free software]] and can be experimented with by external developers.

==Technology==

Movim is developed using [[Organization:PHP|PHP]], [[CSS]] and [[HTML5]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/movim-the-new-open-source-social-network/|title=Movim Technology|date=1 August 2012|accessdate=24 October 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029190342/http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/movim-the-new-open-source-social-network/|archivedate=29 October 2013}}</ref> The software initially used the [[Software:Symfony|Symfony]] framework. Due to the complexity of the application and the XMPP connection management, developers rewrote Movim as a standalone application.  It now has its own libraries and [[Application programming interface|APIs]].

Movim was earlier based on the JAXL library for implementing XMPP.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wiki.movim.eu/index.php?title=Movim_0.1|archive-url=https://archive.today/20131024071112/http://wiki.movim.eu/index.php?title=Movim_0.1|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 October 2013|title=Movim 0.1|accessdate=24 October 2013}}</ref> JAXL has been replaced by Moxl (Movim XMPP Library), licensed under the [[Software:GNU Affero General Public License|AGPL-3.0-only]] license,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/movim/movim/blob/master/lib/moxl/composer.json|title=Moxl AGPL-3.0-only|website=[[GitHub]]|date=13 December 2021}}</ref> to manage connecting to the server through the XMPP [[WebSocket]] protocol. This is claimed to have reduced the code complexity and performance load while providing better error management.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://planet.movim.eu/?page=1|title=Moxl, Movim's New XMPP library|publisher=movim.eu|accessdate=24 October 2013|date=2012-09-15|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029190506/http://planet.movim.eu/?page=1|archivedate=29 October 2013}}</ref>

The platform used Modl (Movim Data Layer) until the version 0.13, a PHP database layer using [[Data access object|DAO Patterns]] for database interfacing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://github.com/movim/modl|title=Modl, Movim Data Layer|website=[[GitHub]]|accessdate=10 January 2015|date=2015-01-10}}</ref> The project was then migrated to the [[Software:Laravel|Laravel]] Eloquent ORM.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nl.movim.eu/?node/pubsub.movim.eu/Movim/from-modl-to-eloquent-or-how-to-change-an-airplane-engine-while-in-flight-gr6f8b|title= From Modl to Eloquent, or how to change a social network database engine|accessdate=17 April 2018|date=2018-04-17}}</ref>

==Architecture==
The project consists of a set of libraries that provide an [[Abstraction layer|abstraction layer]] on top of XMPP for communication and data management.

Requests are handled by instances of a derived interface controller class. This methodology is similar to the query processing in a [[Model–view–controller|MVC]] framework.

Access to the interface is provided by a system of widgets, allowing through introspection capabilities, to write AJAX elements without using [[JavaScript]].
The page display uses a system of nested templates.

==See also==
* [[Software:Diaspora|Diaspora]]
* [[Software:Friendica|Friendica]]
* GNU Social
* [[Social:Comparison of social networking software|Comparison of social networking software]]
* [[Software:Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients|Comparison of cross-platform instant messaging clients]]
* Comparison of microblogging and similar services
* [[Software:Comparison of VoIP software|Comparison of VoIP software]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://movim.eu/ Movim Home Page]
* [https://github.com/movim/movim Movim Github]

[[Category:Social networking services]]
[[Category:Microblogging software]]
[[Category:Distributed computing]]
[[Category:Free instant messaging clients]]
[[Category:Free VoIP software]]

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