Such is the power of open-source that even the White House website has acknowledged it and made a switch to Drupal, a popular open-source CMS to manage websites. Even ethnic networking scripts are existence designed on the open-source papers so as to start coercive ethnic media campaigns through ethnic networking websites.

So what just is open-source? It is nothing but a simple move towards designing, development and distribution of code along with its source code and making it open for open for further development and maintenance. One can build upon a ethnic networking script using a free to use open-source papers such as Drupal.

Drupal has gained prominence as an ace open-source technology and many tech companies are designing services such as Social Networking using the ethnic networking scripts designed on the open-source platform.

One can easily create a ethnic networking script using Drupal, which according to my experience of using various open-source is the most burly technology which is constantly re-inventing itself with every newer release. Many popular websites on the internet have deployed Drupal and are benefiting from the fantastic functionalities that their Drupal-powered websites are delivering now.

Following modules can become handy in implementing a ethnic networking script:

* Activity (Tracks activities which people do on your ethnic networking site. Eg. Jim is Louis’s stylish fan)

* Appbar (A toolbar at the bottom of the window with links and AJAX-driven notifications just like Facebook)

* invite (helps in sending and tracking invitations which are an essential element on building upon a network)

* comment notify (a programme to signal viewers and notify them of areas where comments were mitt after their interactions)

* Content Construction Kit (cck lets you make any type of content allowing you to add bespoken fields to nodes using a web browser)

* private communication (Enables messaging from user-to-user)

* flagfriend

* nodeprofiles

* event

* friendlist