[CS-FSLUG] FOSS Forum/BB Software
Timothy Butler
tbutler at ofb.biz
Sat Feb 4 09:59:17 CST 2006
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to help someone move a "group" off of MSN groups onto
their own hosting account. Here are the things that MSN Groups offers
that are above and beyond a standard forum package like phpBB:
1.) WYSIWYG Posting -- I guess I could tweak a package to do this,
but I'd prefer to go with something that does this out of the box.
2.) Photo albums -- every user has a private photo album where they
can upload, well, photos to share with the group.
3.) (Non-critical) Chat integration -- it uses ActiveX, although
Java too would be fine, to provide chat using the same id's
(automatically) as the forum posting area.
Anyone know of a FOSS solution that can fulfill at least the first
two of these three distinctives? Invision PowerBoard seems to fit the
bill, but its a non-Free (and non-free, $189) option. Something Free
would be great, and something free would still be nicer for this
purpose.
Thanks,
Tim
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