Re: MeeGo forum? (maemo.org round)
 

I think it's a good discussion to have, especially since there was never a point when we could have it in maemo.org.

There are some practical concerns too. The vbulletin license agreement makes collaborative development of the sort we would expect to have in such a community (eg people developing / testing locally and pushing their changes via git) quite hard and costly.

True, and the discussion seems to have gone into vbulettin vs phpbb mode rather too quickly :-( I don't use forums much so don't know what's out there, but it there's something that fits the needs (which haven't actualyl been clearly defined yet) better it deserves at least a look. What, if any, are the viable OSS options?

If on the other hand VB really is the best available option so be it.

Reggie is a valuable resource to be sure, but he's not an infinite resource and he may not be around forever.

Re: MeeGo forum? (maemo.org round)
 

I’m not responsible for this, am merely spreading the word for anyone not following the community list. Which might well not be anyone. :)

A test site for phpbb can be found here at meegotalk.tk

At the moment, the bridge is also looking solid there, however there are a few issues which still make the vb package more appealing for me..

1.SSO implementation with Reggies approach makes more sense to me in terms of consistency. Registration works both ways using the phpbb test site, which leads to two different sign-up processes. I cant see any advantage in this (that doesn’t mean there isn’t one, please feel free to enlighten me)
2.Thanks/Karma system not implemented on phpbb YET. I cant speculate as to the feasibility of emulating the system here.
3.Reggie! Proven track record, ready and willing to work with vb with lots of experience and knowledge.

Just sharing my thoughts here because I dont like mailing lists :D

Re: MeeGo forum? (maemo.org round)
 

Your feelings just about reflect mine (including the dislike of mailing lists!)

I thought this one was all sorted after the IRC meeting a fortnight ago, but apparently not.

Re: MeeGo forum? (maemo.org round)
 

Some people don't like mailing lists, and prefer forums.

Some people don't like IRC, and prefer mailing lists :)

Re: MeeGo forum? (maemo.org round)
 

Yep. Which is why we need mailing lists, IRC and forums. And we need to make sure that people in all of them know about conversations happening in each of them.

My understanding was that a number of issues were regarded as 'resolved' after the meeting. I wasn't able to be there, but had gained that impression.

Re: MeeGo forum? (maemo.org round)
 

Blogs! You're forgetting blogs! The cruddy little things that glue it all together. :D

Re: MeeGo forum? (maemo.org round)
 

Hi, just a comment to put OSS purity in its context.

MeeGo is a project of the Linux Foundation that will be hosted at the Open Source lab of the Oregon State university, where other champion OSS projects are hosted: http://osuosl.org/

From this point of view it makes a lot of sense to default to OSS licenses for the MeeGo infrastructure, since both the Linux Foundation and the OSUOSL are organizations with a explicit open source agenda.

Of course it also makes a lot of sense to consider current resources and skills, and this is why no decision has been made (but we will, this week).

Re: MeeGo forum? (maemo.org round)
 

fyi we have decided to go for vBulletin integrated with Drupal with Reggie leading the implementaton work.

http://lists.meego.com/pipermail/mee...ch/000437.html

Thank you for the discussion here! Now the implementation discussion moves entirely to meego.com

Re: MeeGo forum? (maemo.org round)
 

I'm excited and encouraged at the shape of communications, the timelines and the overall decision process. Kudos to Quim and company.

Re: MeeGo forum? (maemo.org round)
 

MeeGo Forum is now live! http://forum.meego.com
More info: http://bit.ly/9nefhU

Thanks all!