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Line 1: == Results and Recommendations: == The most fully featured options appear to be between Vanilla, GroupServer, Phorum, and ~~Phorum~~FUDforum. Between Vanilla and Phorum, I have to say Vanilla wins hands down due to ease of installation, ability to embed within the current site, and activity of both the user and developer communities. FUDforum is a very powerful option and could be great, however I personally think it is overkill for what OH needs. GroupServer looks amazing, however I was unable to get it to install even after several hours of trying. There is a hosted option, however I couldn't quire determine if it was free or if there would be a cost. Line 9 ⟶ 11: At this stage, I don't feel that the django based forums are quite there yet, with the possible exception of the Q&A style forums, which we have established don't fit the use case for OH. '''My recommendation would be using Vanilla and working on the cookie based login integration with the main OH site. While FUD is a reasonable option, it doesn't "look" quite right with the design of OH. This may come down to features vs how natural and clean we would want the forums to appear.''' == Requirements: == Line 21 ⟶ 23: == Options: == ''' FUD Forum''' http://fudforum.org/forum/ & related wiki http://cvs.prohost.org/ PHP based. Does appear to offer login integration through some exposed PHP APIs. Not sure how we would sync the user databases and call the PHP code from within python, but I do understand it may be generally possible (see http://www.brool.com/index.php/hacks-python-calling-php). Does appear to have a mailing list integration. From the notes on the config page: You can either schedule imports or pipe messages into the forum with procmail or postfix. Having never administered a mailing list personally, I don't know quite what this would entail. Appears to have a pretty active community. '''Install results:''' * Very simple to install. * Can use mysql, postgres, oracle, etc. fairly db agnostic. * Has a classic look (ie lots of options and configuration). * Doesn't look like it was intended to be embedded within another site.