<html><head><style type="text/css">body {word-wrap: break-word; background-color:#ffffff;}</style></head><body><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px">Is there another free OSS option out there for a forum? All the others I know of require money for commercial use etc.<br><br><font color="#333333"><i><span style="font-size: 14px"><font face="sans-serif">Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless</font></span></i></font></div><br><br>-----Original message-----<br><blockquote style="; border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px"><b>From: </b>Daniel Salinas <imsplitbit@gmail.com><b><br>To: </b>openstack@lists.launchpad.net<b><br>Sent: </b>2011 May, Wed, 4 03:24:52 GMT+00:00<b><br>Subject: </b>Re: [Openstack] Creating a forum<br><br></div>And I think that is exactly the things one should bring to the table when<br>discussing the pros/cons of a piece of software. I don't have a preference<br>myself. I don't really know of any webapp beyond security problems. What<br>is more important to me is who will maintain it and how quickly that app's<br>authors respond to exploits. Do we have a hard list of people committed<br>to the project? I have signed up as a moderator.<br><br><br>On 5/3/11 9:51 PM, "Thomas Goirand" <thomas@goirand.fr> wrote:<br><br>>On 05/04/2011 05:42 AM, Daniel Salinas wrote:<br>>> This is awesome!!! Now we can spend 3 weeks debating about forum<br>>> software. I like vbulletin.<br>>> <br>>> On 5/3/11 3:32 PM, "Michael Shuler" <mshuler@gmail.com> wrote:<br>>> <br>>>> On 05/03/2011 02:49 PM, Jordan Rinke wrote:<br>>>>> Ladies and Gentlemen... welcome to the official OpenStack Forums!<br>>>>><br>>>>> <a href="http://forums.openstack.org">http://forums.openstack.org</a><br>>>>><br>>>>> Work in progress so feel free to join and post up any comments about<br>>>>> the forum etc.<br>>>><br>>>> phpBB is a poor choice of forum software, IMO.<br>>>><br>>>> -- <br>>>> Michael<br>><br>>Yet, phpBB has a very bad security record, and I had countless issues<br>>with it. Spammers / hackers have the bad habit to google for a specific<br>>version of phpBB and use that as a result for targets.<br>><br>>Also, phpBB isn't threaded. I think threading isn't an option: it's<br>>needed, IMHO.<br>><br>>Just my 2 cents,<br>><br>>Thomas<br>><br>>_______________________________________________<br>>Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>>Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net<br>>Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>>More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a><br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Mailing list: <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net<br>Unsubscribe : <a href="https://launchpad.net/~openstack">https://launchpad.net/~openstack</a><br>More help : <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp">https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp</a><br></blockquote></body></html>