Re: [libreoffice-design] Migrating from Mail Listing to Forum

Personally, I have always preferred the format of a forum to that of a 
mailing list.

Mailing lists are limited to text only, and while thats fine for most 
mailing lists, we are the [libreoffice-design] mailing list...  In other 
words, we need to be able to post lots of pictures, svgs, templates, 
etc...  This can be done via a wiki, but it forces everyone to visit 
multiple places, and is inefficient.

A forum on the other hand would allow us to centralize everything.  We 
would only move content to the wiki once it has been peer-reviewed and 
finalized.

This would also make the wiki (at least the design section) look more 
professional, because it wouldn't have anything posted that is a work in 
progress.

Also, my vote goes to MyBB http://www.mybb.com/ Its a lot like 
vBulletin, but open source.  However, it does not support mailing list 
integration AFAIK.

On 01/29/2011 10:15 AM, Paulo José wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I know I'm new here and this topic was probably discussed some times, 
> but I wanna know what you think about it now.
>
> The mail listing format is very objective and clear to use. We just 
> need to reply an email to take part in a discussion. But when the 
> discussion grows up, it starts to be impossible don't be disturbed by 
> noise of other discussions and even understand the thread flow.
>
> The forum format is not too simply. You usually need to sign up and 
> login for each participation on a discuss. But as advantage you have 
> more a organized discuss and concise, new features like posting images 
> and attaches, true links, create polls, correct mistakes in your 
> messages, and others.
>
> So I looked up on Google about the possibility of migrate a mail 
> listing to a forum system. Many people talk about the disadvantages 
> [1] on doing it, and how just few mail listing members do login in a 
> forum... All their negative points are related to the differences 
> between forum these two discuss format. Isn't there a way to unify the 
> advantages of both?
>
> There is! Some forum systems that I found actually have support to 
> integrate mail listings, and one of them, called FUDforum [2], has 
> total integration, allowing to the forum archive emails from mail 
> listings and also send the messages posted in the forum to the mail 
> listing [3]! No more need to login in the forum. Is this not great? We 
> could have the both of two worlds!
>
> Along the importing process of FUDforum, is possible automagically 
> create new users (by their email address) and normalize the text of 
> emails (per example, remove the "[libreoffice-design]" signature from 
> the message subtitle). At last, an important thing: FUDforum is /free/ 
> and /open source/.
>
> I personally like the forum format and believe that our productivity 
> would be increased in a power by 2 using it in long discussions and 
> interactive activities, thanks to its advantages. Well, what do you 
> think about it? Is this a possibility to be discussed now?
>
> Thank you in advance for your time!
> ~Paulo
>
> [1] "Moving a mailing list to a forum?"
>     http://www.henriettesherbal.com/blog/moving-mailing-list-forum.html
>
> [2] "What is FUDforum?"
>     http://cvs.prohost.org/index.php
>
> [3] "FUDforum's Mailing List Manager"
>     http://cvs.prohost.org/index.php/Mailing_List_Manager

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