[webteam] forum?

[Sander Devrieze]

2007/9/24, Bart van Bragt <jabber at vanbragt.com>:
> 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.

A simple forum for the newbies, Pubsub based mailing lists for the techies...

> 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 :\

It's very usable at the Coccinella website, but spartan of course :-)

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Mvg, Sander Devrieze.