blogBB: Seamless Integration of Blog and Forum

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blogBB: Seamless Integration of Blog and Forum

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Hello DevNetwork,

For a long time I've tried to find the perfect integration of a blog and forums, but I have yet to come across one. For a day or two, I thought Wordpress and bbPress might be the answer, only to find that the procedural code in both was almost as unmaintainable as phpBB, and seperation of business and presentation logic was almost non-existant.

So I'm out to close the hole in the open source market, and I'm asking anyone who would like to to jump on for the ride.

blogBB seeks to seamlessly integrate a blog and community forums, and to be easily maintainable. If you're interested, I wrote up more on the linked page. Obviously, there is no pay, or promises of pay, other than helping the world out and having a nice project to paste on your resume.

Until I get a SourceForge project set up in a few days, I hope the DevNetwork admins won't mind if I ask comments to be posted here. I'll assume they won't: If you have any comments, please post them here. ;)

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Post by pilau »

Sounds pretty good, I'd like to join.
I'm not that much of a programmer, but I have some experience which is growing and growing all the time, since I practice it everyday.

I'm also skilled With photoshop.
Done a few website and website designes myself.
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Post by Nathaniel »

The SourceForge Project has been accepted, so feel free to join, pilau!

I have other things going on which will keep me busy most of the day, but later / tomorrow I will post what I see the MySQL table structure as being, and then we can figure out where we want to start in terms of code.

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Delicious.
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Me thinks of joining...sounds interesting and I have all this loose time to throw away...
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Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:I have all this loose time to throw away...
Good for you. Can I borrow some?


Anyway, I'm joining as well, since it's something I will surely use in the future.
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Post by Roja »

pilau wrote:
Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:I have all this loose time to throw away...
Good for you. Can I borrow some?
His sarcasm tag got stripped. Maugrim is an extremely overworked individual.. it seems to be a trait of opensource contributors. :)
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that's it.I'm talking to the W3 about a sarcasim tag.
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Charles256 wrote:that's it.I'm talking to the W3 about a sarcasim tag.
:lol:

Ok, umm, how do you join a SF project?
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pilau wrote: Ok, umm, how do you join a SF project?
Create the account, then ask Nathaniel to add you to the group.
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Post by Nathaniel »

We really need a place where we can all collaborate our ideas, and since no one, including me, seems to care for SourceForge's interface, I set up a phpBB forum here.

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Great. Me joins.
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pilau wrote:EDIT: Could you please close the forum to only registered users, and have registration moderation by you/me/other guy? (so it could be a private forum for the purpose of discussing blogBB between us, the developers)
Closed forums aren't ideal for opensource development. You are looking at things the wrong way again. You want as many people as possible to contribute ideas to development, NOT the elite few.

Just a note from a seasoned opensource/freedom-software developer. :)
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

We should get a petition going for that tag... :wink:

I do have some time, and in the interests of avoiding too much duplication there seems to be some overlap on my own future intents - hence its worth joining and contributing where (and when) I can.

Should keep the forums open - /me agrees
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Roja wrote:
pilau wrote:EDIT: Could you please close the forum to only registered users, and have registration moderation by you/me/other guy? (so it could be a private forum for the purpose of discussing blogBB between us, the developers)
Closed forums aren't ideal for opensource development. You are looking at things the wrong way again. You want as many people as possible to contribute ideas to development, NOT the elite few.

Just a note from a seasoned opensource/freedom-software developer. :)
Sorry, I thought we were doing it on a closed-development process/basis. If it's completely open-source, sure, keep them open. I'm not the boss :P
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