[nabs-l] Bulletin board software

[T. Joseph Carter]

1. It is a hosted solution, but at the moment it looks like the host  
is gonna be Dreamhost, so there's a lot of leeway for what I want to 
do with it.

2. I'm looking ultimately for a discussion forum and possibly a wiki 
open to certain contributors to collect the best collective wisdom of 
the forums into a more easily searched manner.  Integration here 
isn't critical, but I wouldn't mind if it were present certainly.

3. It's Dreamhost, which appears to be a Debian Linux LAMP setup.  
It'll do one-click installations of phpBB and MediaWiki, but these of 
course would require some effort to combine into a coherent site, and 
I don't know how well phpBB handles screen readers once sighted 
people start prettying it up with graphics and the like.  I know 
MediaWiki pretty much just works without a whole lot of effort.

But I won't necessarily have to use Dreamhost, either.  I'm looking 
at Dreamhost because I'm familiar with it.  If there's better 
software out there for what I want to do and I'd need another hosting 
provider to make it work, I'd go with another hosting provider.

This project is results-driven more than it is resource-constrained 
at this point.  That's why I was looking for good examples of what 
has been done that works.  I can choose from among those, research 
how it was done, and emulate as necessary.

Joseph


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:53:43AM -0600, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>Hash: SHA256
>
>There are several solutions available actually. What you should do
>precisely depends on your exact needs. If you could answer a couple
>questions I could probably recommend something.
>
>1. Are you looking for a hosted solution or do you have control over the
>web server where your site is located?
>
>2. What functions are you looking for precisely? Are you just looking
>for forums, or do you want a content management system that also happens
>to have forum functionality?
>
>3. Do you have a particular platform said software needs to work with?
>Windows or Linux, Python or PHP, etc?
>- --
>Yes means no and no means yes. Delete all files [Y]?
>Joseph C. Lininger, <jbahm at pcdesk.net>
>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)
>
>iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJLzb/3AAoJEMh8jNraUiwquDgH/3uYAOfpl/24fT/6cLWIfLaK
>p/HXTs7J7OsYhcneaEru+2lVlH3MGG+8P6NaORsCBN63bnskeZeYDwtidFPZ5aW+
>QymdFvAFs7Z7YdHESSvsjrtYsbnE06L0D/OVFLIFHRZ41FeG1ymfaikofj94XzIN
>WykQoafeyqHg3a19hzdS97oLq59Revtjxl1rEAWXEmWlZ9x9OnJM6F91fmSZVXHY
>LctdUVg3rHs8gcB9yIjyn7FBAGmkQFq51gmVLK3hp9PInaCahXIqzr4NOIuoul5s
>IC46edsMm+MaRqPwbkWif466iX4EwVpyLNs7pr/0qBpoDSFSWeO/cR5RSFTH7xo=
>=3gXa
>-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>
>_______________________________________________
>nabs-l mailing list
>nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org
>To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nabs-l:
>http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nabs-l_nfbnet.org/carter.tjoseph%40gmail.com