A real forum for Squeak
Klaus D. Witzel
klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Tue Oct 11 19:07:29 UTC 2005
Hi Christophe,
I hope that feeding external services like gmane.org (which I'm using for
NNTPing this message) and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/squeak/ has some
room on your list. Besides of that I very much appreciate your initiative.
/Klaus
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:10:19 +0200, Christophe Tricot
<christophe.tricot at univ-savoie.fr> wrote:
> Other feature: With a forum Polls can be simply added to posts. By
> example, a poll to submit a new idea to the community... :-)
>
> In my mind, the most interesting features are:
> * Unlimited forums can be organized into as many categories as you
> like
> * Powerful search facility
> * Polls can be simply added to posts
> * Email notification of replies to your topics
> * Powerful topic subscription capability
> * Personal profile creation
> * Email-like private messaging system
> * Topic editing
> * Mass delete/move/lock/unlock of posts
> * Topic splitting
> * Option of auto-pruning of old or unanswered messages on a
> per-forum basis
> * Easy database backup and restore
> * Complete member management
>
> I would like to have these features to support squeak and facilitate all
> participations: from newbies to expert, from person with a mail reader
> to person with webmail.
>
> If you are agree with me, I'm ready to manage a forum. But this
> initiative are only possible with the support of the community...
>
> Christophe
>
>
>
> Hübner, Uwe wrote:
>> In my view:
>> Mailing-Lists:
>> - More hidden from public
>> - Members are more forced to notice discussions (whether they are
>> interested or not) [unless they automatically 'filter' into an E-Mail
>> folder] - A bit more complicated to review postings that are older than
>> your subscription (archive)
>> - Unless the archive is publicly available on a website nothing may be
>> 'googled'
>> Forums:
>> - Can easily be read by everyone who is interested
>> - You have to 'discipline' yourself to read the forum regularly
>> - Current postings may be 'googled'
>> - Have a tree structure concerning a specific subject
>> Note: I don't say what are pros and cons!
>> Uwe
>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>> *Von:* Christophe Tricot [mailto:christophe.tricot at univ-savoie.fr]
>> *Gesendet:* Montag, 10. Oktober 2005 11:43
>> *An:* The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>> *Betreff:* A real forum for Squeak
>> *Wichtigkeit:* Hoch
>> Hi all,
>> (I don't speak very well English so I'm sorry for mistakes... ;-)
>> )
>> I'm looking for a forum about Squeak like phpBB (or smallBB??). I
>> think a forum is better than a mailing list because of users can
>> organize discussions by themes and, users can subscribe to subjects
>> or kind of subjects to follow discussions. Furthermore, everybody
>> can easily consult old messages and users with rights can manage the
>> organizations of subjects. If you want more details you can read
>> features of phpBB here: http://www.phpbb.com/features.php
>> What do think about this idea?
>> Christophe
>>
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>>
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