Within the last couple of years the movement of the Sharing Economy has gained momentum as platforms such as uber.com and airbnb.com are valued at several billion US dollars. Within the domain of eCommerce offered products and services can be described in detail and different (de facto) standards exists but a counterpart for the specification of individual demands has not been established yet.

Within this thesis the pheonomenon of the Sharing Economy is to be transfered and implemented by pursuing a truely P2P-based approach: a P2P network needs to be set up and people seeking to participate in the Sharing Economy express their offered as well as demanded resources in a machine-readable profile and upon connecting to the P2P network their profile (including their demanded and offered resources) information is percolated. A perceivable approach is to develop a drupal/orkut/diaspora extension that facilitates the profile creation that encapsulates all peer-related information such as inventory, location or contact details. In addition, an efficient and pro-active matchmaking reduces the required user involvement and increase the utilization rates of otherwise idle resources.

Requirements:

• Interest in the phenomenon of the Sharing Economy
• Profiecency in object-oriented programming
• Interest in Distributed Open Social Networks (e.g. orkut & diaspora)
• Knowledge wrt. development of drupal extenions is beneficial