[Devel] forum research

[Mark Freeman]

I apologize as I must have forgotten about FUDForum being mentioned
before.  I just took a quick look at the features available and it
looks quite good.  I will try installing it now and seeing how it
looks.  I'll update everyone with more details shortly.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Asheesh Laroia <asheesh at asheesh.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2011, Mark Freeman wrote:
>
>> Good morning everyone.  I apologize for being unable to make it to
>> yesterday's meeting, as Saturday afternoons tend to be a little tough for me
>> to make.  I was hoping to be able to get on and update everyone as to my
>> work thus far.
>>
>> I finished looking at a few options and made my notes and recommendations
>> available here: http://openhatch.org/wiki/Choosing_a_forum. As expected, the
>> options really came down to the first few packages that were recommended
>> during last week's meeting.  I was especially impressed with Vanilla, as my
>> recommendation shows.
>>
>> Hopefully this will trigger some discussion so we can make a decision on
>> how to proceed.
>
> Mark, thanks for working so much on this!
>
> I notice FUDForum didn't make the review; is there a reason for that?
>
> Assuming that FUDForum shouldn't make it, here's how I see it:
>
> * Vanilla looks great visually, out of the box, and is designed to be an
> excellent forum. (I've actually been kind of in love-at-a-distance with it
> since I first heard of it in 2005ish.)
>
> * If we install GroupServer, so far, it seems that I'll be the one to
> maintain it. (If it's even installable!) I'm not particularly interested in
> personally being the one to maintain more stuff on the OpenHatch server(s).
> If we drop Mailman, I might possibly be up for it.
>
> What I think is that, for now, we should give up on the dream of solid
> integration between the web forum and email lists. Then we can use Vanilla
> for at least two forums: (1) "User help" (e.g., "I am stuck on this training
> mission!"), and (2) OpenHatch Publicity chatter.
>
> For now, I think everyone on [OH-Publicity] is also on [Devel], so I'll ask
> here:
>
> If (for example) we move the Publicity group to be a web board, would that
> be the kind of thing that would *stop* anyone who is involved now from
> contributing? (Note that with Vanilla, you will be able to susbscribe to
> receive email updates about a thread or a board automatically. You just
> can't hit "reply" in the mail client.)
>
> If not, then I think the best next step is to install Vanilla, figure out
> how to get the login integration going, and then try using it for Publicity
> chatter, and also figure out other uses for it and open it up to that.
>
> How does that sound?
>
> --
> -- Asheesh.
>
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