[MG] Setting up a discussion forum

[Pietro Speroni di Fenizio]

I agree with Ed.

We need a Forum, but it should be integrated and inside metagovernment.org.

Pietro


On 26 April 2011 14:03, Ed Pastore <epastore at metagovernment.org> wrote:

> 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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