[dojo-contributors] Forums for testing/comparison

[Chris Barber]

I know it's already been mentioned, but what about Drupal
(http://drupal.org). It has a forums module that is dead simple for any
end user to figure out (http://drupal.org/forum). It's written in PHP
and works with MySQL/PostgreSQL. Since Drupal is a CMS, the entire Dojo
site could live in Drupal which has a ton of benefits (for example,
consistent UI across wiki, blog, forums, etc). Plus it already has a
infrastructure for managing users. The themes are modular, so it would
be relatively easy to brand the site with Dojo's look. When you want to
update the site's look, just deploy a new theme.

Tomorrow night I'm going to the Twin Cities Drupal User Group
<http://groups.drupal.org/twin-cities> to learn more. Should be a gas.

-Chris


Tom Trenka wrote:
> I won't make any guarantees but I'd be willing to at least look at it.
>
> trt
>
> On 12/18/06, *Alex Russell* <alex at dojotoolkit.org
> <mailto:alex at dojotoolkit.org>> wrote:
>
>     At this point it's kind of a pot/kettle thing.
>
>     That said, FUDForum has a truly henious interface, but it has the
>     features we need. I expect we're gonna be hacking anything we go with,
>     it's just a question of how much and who's gonna do it. Are you and/or
>     time signing up to help hack on the forum UI?
>
>     Regards
>
>     On Sunday 17 December 2006 10:37 am, Jesse Kuhnert wrote:
>     > Completely agree with Tom on this one. Someone who is anal enough to
>     > sit there and make a thousand tiny tweaks to their css / html is
>     > equally likely to do the same with the code underneath the
>     > application.
>     >
>     > It's also the other part that we have to face as a public project,
>     > peoples perception of what Dojo is and how good it is will be
>     > affected by the visual aspects of the project that are directly
>     > associated with it. (like the website/demo applications/etc)
>     Anything
>     > imperfect found there will almost always translate into perceived
>     > imperfections in our code.
>     >
>     > Perhaps the biggest reason for taking our public face very
>     seriously
>     > is that a good majority of the reasons people might want to use Dojo
>     > are for the things it can do visually in your web application. How
>     > can they trust us to make their app "look great" if they don't see
>     > things looking great in our own creations?
>     >
>     > On 12/17/06, LiuCougar <liucougar at gmail.com
>     <mailto:liucougar at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > <snipped>
>     >
>     > > I don't think this is true: I am not an art designer in any
>     sense,
>     > > I can not design interface (although I can write corresponding css
>     > > and html based on an image mockup), so based on the appearence of
>     > > the app to judge the underlying code quality is something
>     > > (fundamentally) wrong. (I know quite some developers are pure
>     > > programmer, but not designer)
>     > >
>     > > > I'd also argue (and the reason why I made the remark in the
>     first
>     > > > place) is that the visual is not always easy to change; in
>     fact,
>     > > > the visual design is often a reflection of limitations in the
>     > > > coding approach.
>     > >
>     > > don't judge a person based on his appearence, that's a old chinese
>     > > adage, and I'd say:
>     > > don't judge a (open source) project based on its visual design
>     > >
>     > > > The other advantage that I'd like to point out is that a good
>     > > > portion of the N. Ca. Dojo committer team happen to know a good
>     > > > portion of the WP/bbPress team, which is always a benefit.
>     > > >
>     > > > trt
>     > > >
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