[p2p-research] webforum software

[Michel Bauwens]

ok Sam, that is good to know!

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Samuel Rose <samuel.rose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks fairly good actually. Running on django (python).
>
> It has some decent visual features, customization. Pretty nicely-designed
> forum system overall.
>
> I ran through their signup and tested it out here:
> http://testoid.lefora.com/forum/  (will delete soon) everything is in
> working order.
>
> Some things that are missing for deep/rich discussion:
>
>
>    - Quick linking to other posts in the forum
>    - Something that shows "what links here" (a guy from University of
>    Michigan created a tool called "conversation pivots" that does this well see
>    example at http://scratch.drupal.org/project/views for instance,
>    though possible to do not just with Drupal)
>    - Myself and others are now working on tools that allow refactoring
>    discussion into reference/publication/"page" material. This was what we were
>    doing in wiki for quite a while. But, now we're looking at how to push
>    content around easily from Forum, to collections of pages.
>
> Never the less, even without all of that, lefora looks like a good free
> forum service.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Sam,
> >
> > I wonder if you could investigate this and comment on its possible use
> > by the p2p foundation community?
> >
> > see http://www.lefora.com/
> >
> > Michel
> >
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The P2P Foundation researches, documents and promotes peer to peer
alternatives.

Wiki and Encyclopedia, at http://p2pfoundation.net; Blog, at
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net; Newsletter, at
http://integralvisioning.org/index.php?topic=p2p

Basic essay at http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=499; interview at
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2006/09/p2p-very-core-of-world-to-come.html
BEST VIDEO ON P2P:
http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=4549818267592301968&hl=en-AU

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