[MG] Setting up a discussion forum

[Ed Pastore]

I'm not opposed to an external forum, but we do have hosting  
resources. Also there are some things I'd really like to see in a  
forum, such as:
- unified login with mediawiki and/or openid
- e-mail capabilities to integrate with this list or to supplant it
- simplicity but robustness

Matteo, if you can be a little patient, give me a week to see if I can  
get it done. I'll try to find the time to get something set up on the  
tuxfamily site.

Alternately, if you or someone else wants to be the co-admin, I think  
I or Michael can get them set up on the tuxfamily site without  
necessarily giving them destroy privileges. If we build the forum at / 
forum, hopefully we can later just migrate the domain name without  
significant trouble.

As for forum software, I have been leaning toward Vanilla, but after a  
brief recent review, I suspect phorum might be more capable. Namely  
one or both of these for my second point above:
http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,143310,143310#msg-143310
http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,129244,129244#msg-129244

That's all the time I have for now to evaluate, so others please  
comment on possible features and/or possible software packages to meet  
the feature requirements.


On Apr 25, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Matteo Martini wrote:

> I have read with some interest that there have been at least two  
> positive replies to the idea of setting up a discussion forum on the  
> metagovernment site.
> It looks however that this may take some time, so I suggest I can  
> set up the forum by myself, and then link it at an address of the  
> metagovernment site when ready.
> The forum structure should be done as people here want, and the  
> forum should be open to all people interested in discussion about  
> internet government for exchanging opinions and broaden the  
> discussion base among people.
> What do you think about this idea?
>
> Matteo
>
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