[Owasp-website] Forums (yes, I'm bringing this up)

[Mark Bristow]

I've only taken a cursory look at Jive, but it might work well.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Jason Li <jason.li at owasp.org> wrote:

> I have a separate thread with Larry about setting up a VM to stage forums.
> The research he did a few months back suggests Jive may be a good compromise
> to merge mailing lists with forums.
>
> Will follow up with him when I get back to the States.
>
> -Jason
>
>
> On Jun 16, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Rory McCune <rory.mccune at owasp.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:20 PM, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <<buanzo at buanzo.com.ar>
> buanzo at buanzo.com.ar> wrote:
>
>> On 06/15/2011 06:49 PM, Mark Bristow wrote:
>> > I think it's time we finally got real about forums.  I can't believe
>> that there isn't some software
>> > out there that could take our Mailman database, convert it all over to
>> forums by thread (as ugly as
>> > it might be), make user acconts for everyone who has signed up, provide
>> them temproary passwords and
>> > do mail integration moving forward.
>> >
>> > There are a number of web designers/developers at OWASP I say we stand
>> up a test area and just start
>> > mucking around till it works, document it, test it, and transition.
>>
>> We could probably get hypermail or something like that to read the mailman
>> mbox archives. Those
>> tools already split by thread. Then we just hook ourselves to, instead of
>> create an html archive,
>> inject to a mybb/phpbb/whateverwechoose forum database accordingly. Also,
>> I'd just use a fake
>> account for these imported messages, and just keep them as reference, and
>> have NEW discussions be
>> created by real forum accounts (probably linked to an @<http://owasp.org>
>> owasp.org account?).
>>
>>
> It'd be good to sort something out for forums.  The challenge I've seen
> from reading previous threads on this (IIRC) is that there's a desire for a
> solution which allows for people to have both forums style access and
> mailing list style access at the same time (roughly the way that Yahoo
> Groups works).  I think that if we could solve that problem, then as Arturo
> says, it would just be a question of sorting out a one-time import process,
> to populate the archives.
>
> Cheers
>
> Rory
>
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