Open Stack

The best, which is relative, and one of the most widely used forum apps is 
vbulletin <http://www.vbulletin.com/>.  It's commercial, but inexpensive 
($195.00 US).  Their new CMS product ($295 US) also looks interesting. In 
addition to all of the standard vbulletin forum functionality we could provide 
community members with blog space for articles.  It allows for tagging, cross 
posting from forums to docs and blogs, etc.  I don't have any experience with 
the app but it could be an interesting Open Stack social experiment.

Kevin

On Thu, 5 May 2011, Jordan Rinke wrote:

>  Forums (forums.openstack.org) have just been approved by the PPB. Delegation
>  on working with the community to get consensus on selecting a software for
>  them is to Chad Keck, Myself and Stephen Spector.
>
>  I should note that based on what I read it appears Forums AND Questions seem
>  to be the answer to the forums debate with a sticky on the forums pointing
>  to whatever the QA software is to funnel specific questions to a questions
>  facility but also to allow general discussion on the forums. Right now, I
>  personally am only focusing on the forums/discussion portion since that was
>  the only portion specifically voted on that I am aware of.
>
>  If you have a suggestion for forum software please provide it and I will get
>  demos of every one recommended up and we can put the software to a vote for
>  the official forums.