[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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