Remember a few month back when word first got out about Diaspora, the open source “Facebook Killer”? Well they guys behind Diaspora has been working hard and have set a date when they will release their code.

The four NYU students have been coding away the past couple of months and at the beginning of last month put up a short demo of what they have been working. Now in a new blog post by the team they have set the date to release the code to public on 15 September 2010 by issuing the following statement: ”We have been coding. We have Diaspora working, we like it, and it will be open-sourced on September 15th.”

Will the team of NYU students continue to improve on Diaspora after they open source the code on 15 September? The short answer is yes. In the blog post they also stated “We aren’t going to stop working after we release. Ilya and Raphael are taking leave from NYU, and we will continue to develop and maintain Diaspora as a long term project. We have shifted our development timeline accordingly, and the first release will be the beginning of something great, not a finished summer project.”

If Diaspora is anything to go by from what I have seen on their demo videos they may just have a success on their hands. Whether Diaspora is a “Facebook Killer” we will just have to wait and see, chances of users moving to another social network are slim unless you can convince you friends to move along, who knows maybe Diaspora can achieve this.

Will you make use of Diaspora once they release their code to the public?