Synthesis taken from ideas at:
- https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20100927/000312.html by maât
- & https://mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/20100927/000297.html by misc
- https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20101004/002079.html by maât
Some requirements for Mageia Forums
- use a free (as in freedom) forum engine see http://opensource.org/
- international forum uses english language
- official & non-official local forums can be linked from forum.mageia.org
- perhaps use openid to permit a single login (SSO) at least among official forums / bugzilla / ideas / wiki
- official forums may be hosted on mageia's own infrastructure once it's available
- CSS are welcome to enhance the appearance
- structure of the forum has yet to be defined (sub-forums, localized forums)
- moderators team will come in time, just be patient :)
ideas drafts
- Provide unique way to have news about Mageia withouth need of "one again" copy-paste for comm team (social media integration ? identi.ca, facebook, twitter, diaspora)
- not "numbers of post" status (usual configurations of forum plateforms by default: please not)
- no custom signatures, permit only technical references, no externals logos
- topic notes possibilities, allowing enhancements without moderators intervention than their own notes
- no externals logos, no hosting images. Strict usages of.
- Integration of requirement to present strict subject topic according to strict guidelines. Post refused if subject topic does not respect guidelines to ensure clean organization and historical
Analysis of existing forums
check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software_(PHP)http://www.forum-software.org/forum-comparator/fudforum-vs-ipboard-vs-phpbb3-vs-punbb
to be completed:
phpBB - GPL
- Well know by web team !
- Many translations
- Ajax integration
- No Message Rating
myBB - GPL
FUDforum - GPL - (need many translation, big works but interesting for project too)
- Need to be translated in many languages : big works but interesting for project too, but big works
- No social network integration : need to duplicate informations for comm' team :(
- check extensions available and how well they are maintained
- No user accounts integration (as openID or ldap)
- Have Message Rating !!
Citadel - GPL v3 - Not really a forum (Old BBS style by defaults, provide forums, chats, rooms and mails solution) Not really forum but certainly deserves to be evaluate too.
- Forums
- Ajax wui
- Jabber XMPP integration
- Perl modules possibilities :)
- Chats rooms, worksgroups rooms, ...
- BBS old school
- http://easyinstall.citadel.org/releasenotes-7.80.txt (08-2010)
- http://www.citadel.org/doku.php/installation:easyinstall:easyinstall:homebrew (or easy-intall)
Mods PHPbb
- SEO (?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization
- auto-archiving
- "Solved" Button
Analysis of several wiki
http://wikkawiki.org/MediaWikiComparison missing PostgreSQL support :/ lack of interface translation (english by default, that will do...)http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/DokuWiki+MediaWiki+PmWiki+Tiki-Wiki-CMS-Groupware+WikiNi+WikkaWiki
Structure
Identify current structure needed, keeping in mind a global structure (sub-forums can be opened when needed).- Support
- Get and install Mageia
- Hardware
- Software
- International community support :
- German: mageiausers.de
- English: on the site ? forum.mageia.com, www.mandrivausers.org if they have a new name ?
- Espanol: Blogdrake.net ? (problem of the name?)
- French: MLO ? aide aux débutant ?? problem of the name and technical level, not only newbies will use forums. Ash : not problems, as mlo will change name, and also want to evoluate to multiple level support. name would be mageia-online.net ;-)
- Development and contribution
- Packaging
- Cauldron, the next version of Mageia
- Spreading Mageia, Communication and website
- Collaboration with other distro
- Managing communities around Mageia
- Mageia art
- Community and End Users
- News and announcements
- Free Chat ( a priori moderation, to limit troll) [muny note : please reserve this one for each community forum. Not freechat on this one] ash : I think mandrivausers.de has the best way of seeing fre chat just tell this forum can have trolls or useless topic. if you don't like it, don't go.
- Suggestions & Feedback
- Discussions about Mageia
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