[NGO] FW: forum software

[Jon Stahl]

Lots of NGOs need (or think they need) forum software.

Natively in Plone, Ploneboard (http://plone.org/products/ploneboard) is
the obvious choice for simple, basic forums.

But if you need more power, SimpleMachines Forum is likely a good way to
go.  

I believe that Alan and the crew at Enfold did some integration work
between Plone & SMF -- but I don't think there was ever much released.
I recall Alan describing this work at NOLA 06 as "really simple" --
pretty much a matter of getting SMF to accept Plone's cookies as
authentication.  Don't see anything in the Enfold public SVN, but if
people are interested in this, perhaps we can get Alan to share more
detail. ;-)

best,
jon

-----Original Message-----
From: nosi-discussion-bounces at nosi.net
[mailto:nosi-discussion-bounces at nosi.net] On Behalf Of Ryan W. Ozimek
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 6:53 PM
To: roger at efn.org
Cc: nosi-discussion at nosi.net
Subject: Re: [NOSI discussion] forum software

Hi Roger,

We've been rolling out SimpleMachines for most of our clients now, since
there's a great bridge with Joomla.  However, standing on its own two
feet, as free software, we've been really pleased with its feature set
and usability.

Meanwhile, I was checking the Joomla forum via WAP this afternoon...nice
add-on feature. =)

We've used vBulletin extensively before that, but it's neither OSS nor
free.

Best,
Ryan

-----Original Message-----
From: nosi-discussion-bounces at nosi.net
[mailto:nosi-discussion-bounces at nosi.net] On Behalf Of Roger
Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2006 7:42 PM
To: lobo at yahoo.com
Cc: nosi-discussion at nosi.net
Subject: Re: [NOSI discussion] forum software

>
> check:
>
> http://www.simplemachines.org/
>
> joomla uses this and i think its quite nice and usable with some cool 
> features. meets most of your needs described below

D'oh.  I went looking at that.  I was thinking the images weren't
inline. 
I wasn't able to check the demo earlier, so thought it would just list
the attachment like other forums.
It does do inline, not for all image formats, but enough.

Roger
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