[MG] Setting up a discussion forum

[Michael Allan]

I agree with Ed and Alexander, the email integration is crucial.  If
it doesn't function like a mailing list then (for many of us) it'll be
one step forward and two steps backward.

Also something to consider: C just finished coding Pipermail/Mailman
scrapers for the diff feed in order that we could see our messages in
the theatre app: http://metagovernment.tuxfamily.org/crossforum/#c=DG
It'd be a shame for that to go unused, even temporarily.

-- 
Michael Allan

Toronto, +1 416-699-9528
http://zelea.com/


Alexander Praetorius wrote:
> Is it possible to integrate the forum with the mailinglist? (HTML
> Mailinglist?)
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> I'd like to view new postings or topics within my email program, but would
> be great if I can see the forum within the mail from the mailinglist.
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> I often made the experience that I forget to subscribe to topics or other
> stuff on the forum and would like to automatically get everything that's on
> the forum.
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> .would be great to answer to topics by clicking buttons within the email and
> sending emails to the list will automatically add the answer to the topic .
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> .never saw such a thing, but it would combine the good stuff of both worlds.
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> Forums are more structured
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> Email is my everyday inbox without the need to go to a special website or
> without subscribing to topics every time someone starts something :)
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> From: start-bounces at metagovernment.org
> [mailto:start-bounces at metagovernment.org] On Behalf Of Pietro Speroni di
> Fenizio
> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 2:22 PM
> To: Metagovernment Project
> Subject: Re: [MG] Setting up a discussion forum
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> I agree with Ed.
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> We need a Forum, but it should be integrated and inside metagovernment.org.
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> Pietro
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> On 26 April 2011 14:03, Ed Pastore <epastore at metagovernment.org> wrote:
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> 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:
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> - unified login with mediawiki and/or openid
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> - e-mail capabilities to integrate with this list or to supplant it
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> - simplicity but robustness
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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:
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> http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,143310,143310#msg-143310
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> http://www.phorum.org/phorum5/read.php?62,129244,129244#msg-129244
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> 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.
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> On Apr 25, 2011, at 9:26 PM, Matteo Martini wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> What do you think about this idea?
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> Matteo



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