[LEDE-DEV] lede forum

[A. Benz]

Hi Ted and all,

PhpBB or SMF (Simple Machines Forum) are popular free choices and take a 
minute or so to setup.

The other day on IRC I had a few people telling me how bad of an idea a 
forum is, and now it seems to be on the agenda ;)

I'd say set up the forum, content and mods will be done and get polished 
by community. I see many people on OWRT forum that work on community 
builds and dedicate a lot of time helping others, this type of people 
would make ideal mods. A few names come to mind already as I type this.

Does anyone know what kind of traffic the OWRT forum gets? If its not 
very demanding I could assist in providing hosting.

Regards,
A. Benz

On 07/25/16 07:03, Ted Hess wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-07-24 at 16:37 +0200, moeller0 wrote:
>>>
>>> On Jul 24, 2016, at 15:41 , tapper <j.lancett at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi with the ssl sert being messed up on the openwrt forum we really need a
>>> forum for lede. I don't know how to set one up but wen one is put up i wood
>>> like to be a admin to help with noobs and getting rid of spam. I have bin a
>>> admin on the Gargoyle forum now for a long time and like helping people out.
>>> thanks  Tapper..
>> 	Oh, speaking of a forum, I believe, if LEDE wants to get its own forum
>> (which) I would support it should come with more administration than the
>> openwrt forums that, at times, are pretty far away from lede’s “be nice to
>> each other” guidelines. I am not advocating to keep the ban-hammer swinging
>> all times, but there should be some feed-back and potential consequences of
>> prolonged and repeated lack of nice-ness…
>> 	I believe that tapper has shown exactly the kind of moderation a
>> potential lede forum should have, so I support his “election” to forum
>> administrator/moderator (for what it is worth)…
>
> @tapper, @moeller0, & others
>
> We had a brief discussion at our last mtg about what to do about a Wiki and
> forum. One suggestion was to become a sub-forum in the OpenWrt forum if they'd
> have us as a 'community build' - aka "The Dark Side" ;) That's sort of moot at
> the moment since openwrt.org is in a certificate service valley.
>
> We don't think we can handle our own wiki & forum without a whole lot of help
> with content, moderation & management. We also have to find resources to host
> the sites.
>
> And... do you guys have any suggestions/recommendations for software (presumably
> free) to deploy.
>
> I'm here to help with the staging and systems work (installing and deploying the
> base software) - I would like to see other volunteers to take on forum and/or
> wiki admin, etc.
>
> /ted
>
>
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