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Hello,

thanks a lot to everyone for their great and creative contribution to 
the discussion, which I consider really fruitful. Even if I didn't reply 
to every message, I read them all.

It is already rather clear, that there is a real overwhelming support 
for having our own forums. I counted only one or two -1, everyone else 
was in favor of hosting forums on our own.

So, I am very much in favor of moving forward. I'd like to continue that 
discussion on the website list, since it technically belongs there, so 
I'd like to invite everyone to participate in the discussion on the 
*website* list.

The next steps to me are:

1. Determine which software to use. Some proposals and compilations have 
come in, namely:

        a. phpBB

        b. http://www.simplemachines.org

        c. http://stackoverflow.com (Alex will provide a VM to test that soon.)

        d. http://arkanis.de/projects#nntp-forum#

	e. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software_%28PHP%29

	f. 
http://www.forummatrix.org/compare/bbPress+FluxBB+FUDforum+Invision-Power-Board+MyBB+Phorum+phpBB+punBB+SMF+vBulletin

2. Determine whether we will need our own VM, or whether we can host it 
directly at our machines. (I prefer to have a VM for testing, but then 
move it to our machines, since we don't have that many available VMs and 
I'd like to have them for testing stuff.)

With regards to step #1, I am very much in favor of keeping in mind that 
most users were neither happy with Nabble nor GMANE, and if we want to 
lower the burden and raise acceptance, we really should use something 
they know. Remember, it's not about us, who are familiar with mailing 
lists, but about casual users.

Looking forward to continuing the discussion ;-)

Florian

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