A Q&A system isn't a swiss army knife, so a mailing-list is still needed. The exact roles of each system (mailing-list and Q&A system) can only be sorted with time and experience using both side-by-side.
Federated identity management is a must-have feature in whatever skunks-ke will pick, specifically the ability to log-in using OpenID and/or delegate authority with OAuth. Features like OpenID are great for consolidating your identity in "one place" and using it across supported services (no need for yet another set of passwords to remember). Plus you can leverage your skunks-ke contributions as part of your online brand/reputation, something that might come in quite handy for some. Most online email providers also act as OpenID providers: Yahoo, GMail etc allow you to use your email address as an OpenID. Wordpress is also an OpenID provider, possibly some other blogging systems as well.
+10 for a StackOverflow/CNProg/OSQA-style system.
Saidi
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Frankline Chitwa
<frank.chitwa@gmail.com> wrote:
I stand to be corrected but phpBB seems non modular. That means adding any more features in future may prove very difficult. You may need to do custom stuff on the database and the code for you to add features. Multiple features may mean too many problems.
Wordpress, drupal or joomla have migration tools to help you migrate your website to them from phpBB, so you may have some reprieve in migration.
Drupal has http://drupal.org/project/phpbb2drupal, let joomla and wordpress users shed more light on the issue.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:11 PM, aki
<aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Stage 2 : Open dialogue with System Admins of Skunkworks KE
You may followed the thread, kindly advice us on what needs to happen
to maintain mailing list via http://my.co.ke/phpbb/ ?
Looking forward to your response.
Rgds.
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