[tbilisimakerspace] Re: Oxwall vs Buddypress vs phpBB (was: Re: Oxwall vs Buddypress)
- From: Dato Gogishvili <dato@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tbilisimakerspace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:10:01 +0400
I'm available tomorrow and will buy domain.
dato
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Sebastian Henschel <
sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hello Giorgi et al...
>
> On 13 March 2012 17:13, Giorgi Kandelaki <kandelakig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Looked at it, and wrote to you there.
> >
> > With the first look I liked buddypress more. But it also has some good
> > features.
> >
> > But, overall, I think both are overkill for our purposes. We don't need
> this
> > huge social-network-like sites, with all it's cool gadgets.
>
> hey, you are talking to generation facebook here. :) personally i'm
> fine with this mailing-list, but a few people wanted a few more
> features (for good reasons).
>
>
> > I think, we need just two simple things:
> >
> > Web site - for promotional purpose
> > With information about TOL. News (something like blog). Contact
> information.
>
> > Communication tool - alternative to this mailing list, cause folks don't
> > like it
> > For me, something like Google Groups would be perfect, but I understand
> your
> > concerns about "data liberation"
>
> one complaint some people had was too much traffic. a forum would
> compartmentalise the communication and you can subscribe to/read the
> boards you are most interested in.
>
>
> > BTW, if I suggest the way to export content from Google Groups, would you
> > consider it as an alternative?
>
> that would be good. what about identity? i know that TI Georgia is
> using gmail, but the domain used is transparency.ge - would something
> similar be possible for TOL?
>
> afaik Google Groups is a fancy-looking mailing-list, as long as you
> are not part of the googleverse. it wouldn't help against the
> perception of too much traffic. unless you decide to have several
> lists, but that might be too much separation already.
>
>
> > Or may be we can install only standalone forum? like phpBB or something
> > similar?
>
> i'm glad you asked for it, because that would have been my non-social
> network suggestion:
> http://tbilisimakerspace.kodeaffe.de/phpBB3/
>
>
> i guess that should suffice for alternatives: we should choose one of
> these three, unless somebody has an urgent desire to propose something
> else.
> frankly, i have no preference: all three of them are working - the
> bane of consumerism. :)
> the integration of bbpress (forum) into buddypress seems a bit dodgy.
> otherwise it looks a bit less cluttered / overwhelming than oxwall.
> phpBB will probably be the most advanced in offering forum features,
> while the others might make things look more vibrant, with activity
> streams, walls, etc.
>
> a few people have signed up to buddypress / oxwall, i haven't heard
> much negative feedback on either of them. we will see how many will be
> interested in having a look at phpbb.
>
> i propose to reach a decision until saturday eve and maybe the domain
> tbilisiopenlabs.ge will be ready until then. Dato?
>
> David, do you want to create a poll like the one you had made for the
> name? i guess just the three choices 'buddypress', 'oxwall', 'phpbb'
> would suffice, nothing more sophisticated.
>
> bye,
> Sebastian
>
>
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Sebastian Henschel
> > <sebastian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >> i installed oxwall on the server, to play and test:
> >> http://tbilisimakerspace.kodeaffe.de/oxwall/
> >>
> >> (as a reminder, buddypress is here:
> >> http://tbilisimakerspace.kodeaffe.de/buddypress/)
>
>
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