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| − | == A forum? ==
| + | Hello! I am new:) |
| − | | + | My name is John from California! |
| − | People have been [http://openhatch.org/bugs/issue90 asking] [http://openhatch.org/bugs/issue74 for] a web forum. It could provide the following benefits:
| + | Nice to meet all of u here |
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| − | * People could chat among themselves and figure out their ''own'' ideas for making open source a more fun place.
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| − | ** In general, it would help people have more ''conversations'' on the OpenHatch site. So as a group, we could discuss neat game-mechanics ideas, that sort of thing.
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| − | * People could discuss their problems getting involved with projects.
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| − | ** People could say, "Hey, I found this bitesize bug and got stuck -- what do I do next?" and have a decent chance of someone answering.
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| − | It would have the following costs:
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| − | * We'd have to maintain a forum.
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| − | * People will flame us and say that mailing lists are the answer to all of life's problems.
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| − | == Okay, so which forum? ==
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| − | === Vanilla Forum ===
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| − | * Pros:
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| − | ** Looks friendly by default
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| − | ** Nice, friendly, lightweight look
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| − | ** Decent story for user integration with Django
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| − | ** Could run it on a different web server, etc., since it's not Django
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| − | ** Mature forum software, presumably with features and stability
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| − | * Can generate an RSS feed for a forum
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| − | * Cons:
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| − | ** Since it's not Django, we'd have to try harder to maintain skinning
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| − | ** If we want to incorporate Vanilla items into the front page activity feed, we'd have to try harder.
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| − | ** No mailing list integration
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| − | === DjangoBB ===
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| − | * Pros:
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| − | ** Looks like nicest Django web forum
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| − | * Cons:
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| − | ** Would have to run it on the main server, meaning it could worsen load problems
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| − | === FUDForum ===
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| − | * Pros:
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| − | ** Email list integration!
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| − | * Can generate an RSS feed for a forum
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| − | * Cons:
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| − | ** Ugly by default (but it's actually quite skinnable)
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| − | === Phorum ===
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| − | * Pros:
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| − | ** Email list integration. Use two addon modules:
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| − | ** http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,140380 and http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,129244,129244#msg-129244
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