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** OpenTaxi project **
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Project overview
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This project is aimed to automate taxi service and make it open to everybody.
Every car driver has the right to take a passenger along the way, bring him/her to his/her destination and earn some money from it.
Every passenger has the right to get ride with any driver.
So let's bring them together.

Author of this project had some experience with commercial taxi service automation programs. They're ugly.
The market needs a good, agile and sane product. Let's do it together for everyone.

This project will start as the local service helper.

Design overview
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It is a classic 3-tier:

+--------------+          +----------+             +-----------+
|   Client     |          |          |             |           |
|  software    |          |  Server  |             |   Data    |
|  (browser,   | / HTTP \ | software | / MongoDB \ |  storage  |
|  Java app,   | \ JSON / |  (PHP)   | \ protocol/ |  engine   |
| Android app, |          |          |             | (MongoDB) |
| iOS app etc) |          |          |             |           |
+--------------+          +----------+             +-----------+


System requirements
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* Dedicated server (may be VPS or VDS)
* UNIX-like OS (tested on linux)
* Web server (apache, lighttpd).
* PHP interpreter v.5.3 or higher
  - GD library
  - MongoDB driver
  - memcached, xcache or APC module
  - multibyte string support
  - FastCGI SAPI is recommended.
* MongoDB server
* memcached (if memcached is used for caching)
* Asterisk (for voice notifications)