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+____ StatusNet Plugin ____
+by Tobias Diekershoff
+   tobias.diekershoff(at)gmx.net
+
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+!! This addon is currently in under development. If you have any problem    !!
+!! with it, please contact the Author.                                      !!
+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
+
+With this addon to Friendika you can give your user the possibility to post
+their public messages to any StatusNet instance like identi.ca for example. The
+messages will be strapped their rich context and shortened to to the character
+limit of the StatusNet instance in question if necessary. If shortening of the
+message was performed a link will be added to the notice pointing to the
+original message on your server.
+
+There is a similar plugin to forward public messages to Twitter Twitter Plugin.
+
+Online version of this document: http://ur1.ca/35mpb
+
+___ Requirements ___
+
+Due to the distributed nature of the StatusNet network, each user who wishes to
+forward public messages to a StatusNet account has get the OAuth credentials
+for themselves, which makes this addon a little bit more user unfriendly then
+the Twitter Plugin is. Nothing to geeky though!
+
+The inclusion of a shorturl for the original posting in cases when the message
+was longer then the maximal allowed notice length requires it, that you have
+PHP5+ and curl on your server.
+Where to find
+
+In the Friendika git repository /addon/statusnet/, this directory contains all
+required PHP files (including the Twitter OAuth library [1] by Abraham Williams,
+MIT licensed and the Slinky library [2] by Beau Lebens, BSD license), a CSS file
+for styling of the user configuration and an image to Sign in with StatusNet.
+
+[1] https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth
+[2] http://dentedreality.com.au/projects/slinky
+
+___ Configuration ___
+
+__ Global Configuration __
+
+To activate this addon add statusnet to the list of active addons in your
+.htconfig.php file 
+    $a->config['system']['addon'] = "statusnet, ...".
+
+__ User Configuration __
+
+When the addon is activated the user has to aquire three things in order to
+connect to the StatusNet account of choice.
+ * the base URL for the StatusNet API, for identi.ca this is
+   https://identi.ca/api/
+ * OAuth Consumer key & secret
+
+To get the OAuth Consumer key pair the user has to (a) ask her Friendika admin
+if a pair already exists or (b) has to register the Friendika server as a
+client application on the StatusNet server. This can be done from the account
+settings under "Connect -> Connections -> Register an OAuth client application
+-> Register new application".
+
+During the registration of the OAuth client remember the following:
+ * there is no callback url
+ * register a desktop client
+ * with read & write access
+ * the Source URL should be the URL of your Friendika server
+
+After the required credentials for the application are stored in the
+configuration you have to actually connect your Friendika account with
+StatusNet. To do so follow the Sign in with StatusNet button, allow the access
+and copy the security code into the addon configuration. Friendika will then
+try to acquire the final OAuth credentials from the API, if successful the
+addon settings will allow you to select to post your public messages to your
+StatusNet account.