InkscapeForum.com for offer to Inkscape.org
If you don't know, I run www.inkscapeforum.com--a relatively successful phpBB forum for Inkscape users.
I created the forum because I knew there was demand and at the time I knew I could devote a lot of time to make it successful. But I was never fond of the idea that a single person would have ownership of the data accumulated from the community.
I wanted to offer ownership of the forum to Inkscape.org. Ideally this only needs to go as far as knowing that if I were hit by a bus, someone could step in and take over. I don't know how things are ran on the inkscape.org site, but I would be offering the entire setup to be hosted by inkscape.org (if possible).
I would happily continue to moderate, and administer the board if appropriate access were given. And I would redirect inkscapeforum.com to the new domain, or change it's name servers.
Anyway, discussion open. Would Inkscape.org be interested in adopting the forum? The forum won't be shutdown regardless of the answer.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 1:24 AM, microUgly<drworm@...1743...> wrote:
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I wanted to offer ownership of the forum to Inkscape.org. Ideally this only needs to go as far as knowing that if I were hit by a bus, someone could step in and take over. I don't know how things are ran on the inkscape.org site, but I would be offering the entire setup to be hosted by inkscape.org (if possible).
I would happily continue to moderate, and administer the board if appropriate access were given. And I would redirect inkscapeforum.com to the new domain, or change it's name servers.
Nice attitude! I think is good for the project to hug the forum.
On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 21:24 -0700, microUgly wrote:
If you don't know, I run www.inkscapeforum.com--a relatively successful phpBB forum for Inkscape users.
I created the forum because I knew there was demand and at the time I knew I could devote a lot of time to make it successful. But I was never fond of the idea that a single person would have ownership of the data accumulated from the community.
I wanted to offer ownership of the forum to Inkscape.org. Ideally this only needs to go as far as knowing that if I were hit by a bus, someone could step in and take over. I don't know how things are ran on the inkscape.org site, but I would be offering the entire setup to be hosted by inkscape.org (if possible).
I would happily continue to moderate, and administer the board if appropriate access were given. And I would redirect inkscapeforum.com to the new domain, or change it's name servers.
Anyway, discussion open. Would Inkscape.org be interested in adopting the forum? The forum won't be shutdown regardless of the answer.
I think this is a great idea. I'm not sure of a plan that will get us there. Where is inkscapeforum.com currently hosted? What kind of resources does it need to run?
--Ted
On 07/27/2009 06:24 AM, microUgly wrote:
Anyway, discussion open. Would Inkscape.org be interested in adopting the forum? The forum won't be shutdown regardless of the answer.
Yes please! Then we can finally get rid of these ugly and unusable sourceforge forums!
BTW, may I thank you for your contribution to the Inkscape community?
Diederik
Ted Gould wrote:
I think this is a great idea. I'm not sure of a plan that will get us there. Where is inkscapeforum.com currently hosted? What kind of resources does it need to run?
It's currently hosted on Dreamhost. It requires PHP 4 and MySQL 5 (although I think it could be downgraded to MySQL 4).
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Diederik van Lierop wrote:
On 07/27/2009 06:24 AM, microUgly wrote:
Anyway, discussion open. Would Inkscape.org be interested in adopting the forum? The forum won't be shutdown regardless of the answer.
Yes please! Then we can finally get rid of these ugly and unusable sourceforge forums!
And never move website to a new engine? :-)
Alexandre
And never move website to a new engine? :-)
The whole website redesign to Drupal project seems to have gone stale; my suggestion is that I take it over and come up with something. The pertinent detail for this discussion is that then we could use Drupal forums, which in my opinion are the best available; as an example of a good implementation (though I had nothing to do with it), our forums at PortableApps.comhttp://portableapps.com/forums. I've got the Drupal experience necessary to do the theming and site setup, and am coming up with a design based on one of the others submitted in the original DeviantArt topic. If you like, I'll continue on making a prototype and provide a test site online.
Chris Morgan <chris.morganiser@...400...>
I don't need a quote in my signature. It's hard enough surviving as it is without having to find a meaningful quote. Will you forgive me? Or don't you read this bit?
On 27/7/09 06:24, microUgly wrote:
If you don't know, I run www.inkscapeforum.com--a relatively successful phpBB forum for Inkscape users.
I created the forum because I knew there was demand and at the time I knew I could devote a lot of time to make it successful. But I was never fond of the idea that a single person would have ownership of the data accumulated from the community.
I wanted to offer ownership of the forum to Inkscape.org. Ideally this only needs to go as far as knowing that if I were hit by a bus, someone could step in and take over. I don't know how things are ran on the inkscape.org site, but I would be offering the entire setup to be hosted by inkscape.org (if possible).
I would happily continue to moderate, and administer the board if appropriate access were given. And I would redirect inkscapeforum.com to the new domain, or change it's name servers.
Anyway, discussion open. Would Inkscape.org be interested in adopting the forum? The forum won't be shutdown regardless of the answer.
*bump*
please don't let that offer slip and integrate the forum (in its current form) into Inkscape.org. It is a valuable resource for Inkscape users thanks to microUgly's efforts!
http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=3710
It would be too bad if that resource disappears due to some misunderstandings about the homepage redesign plans and their currently unclear status (that's at least my impression about the plans from the recent discussions here, in other threads ;-).
~suv
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