[webteam] forum?

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Bart van Bragt wrote:
> Kevin Smith wrote:
>> To what end? Forums are great for support requests, etc, but projects
>> have their own for those - for general chat we could promote some chat
>> rooms on c.j.o? That said, I don't hate the idea of having forums, I
>> just don't see a need yet :)
> IMO Forums are much needed, mailinglists are great for tech savvy
> developers that are motivated enough to subscribe to the relevant
> mailinglists. Forums are great for less 'techie' discussions (i.e. by
> our 'managers' and also the endusers). Forums are also more suited to
> build an actual community around the site in specific and Jabber/XMPP in
> general. Currently a large part of the community is spread out over the
> projects (for example Psi) and currently there is nowhere to discuss
> 'what client/server/service' to choose except for juser (with 5
> messages/month) which is really not suitable for your average internet user.

Right. I think forums are more user-friendly for lots of folks. I don't
use them myself (too many other communication venues already!), but I
think they could be quite helpful for end users and such. If we could
cross-post them to JUser / JAdmin etc. that would be cool...

> So I think we really should setup and integrate some forum system in
> phase 2 (or 3 :D). Being an ex-phpBB developer I'm biased towards phpBB
> (3.x) ofcourse but I can at least offer to properly integrate the forum
> into the site/drupal. The forums in Drupal itself are too limited when
> it comes to moderation and usability :\

I have no opinion (yet) regarding choice of technology.

Oh and BTW this might be a phase 2 thing...

Peter

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