[Devel] forum research

[Mark Freeman]

As a side note, here is a recent interview done with the CEO of the
company behind Vanilla.  My observations about vanilla are right in
line with what he is saying.

http://vanillaforums.com/blog/philosophy/mark-osullivan-techzulu-interview/


On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Mark Freeman <mark at timewasted.net> wrote:
> OK, I've done the install and updated the notes.   FUD does appear to
> have the slightly better feature set (it has mailing list
> integration), although they are practically neck and neck on this
> front. When it comes down to looks and "looking like it is part of the
> OH site", Vanilla still has my vote.
>
> It's a real toss up. In the end, regardless of the features, I like
> the look and 'feel' of Vanilla better.  FUD looks dated.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Mark Freeman <mark at timewasted.net> wrote:
>> 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.
>>>
>>> http://asheesh.org/
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