Fwd: Forums are future work?

Please reply to Karim.

Thanks,

David

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Karim Nassar <karimgiant-rock.com>
> Date: October 23, 2007 14:40:41 PDT
> To: davidjustatheory.com
> Subject: Forums are future work?
>
> Hello there. I have been impressed so far with the
reading I have done
> about Bricolage. It seems to be exactly what I need,
except that I see
> no mention of chat forums, which seems to be a common
feature for  
> CMSs.
>
> 1) Am I too dumb to find the link to the docs about
forums?
>
> 2) If #1 is "no", what are your thoughts
about adding forum  
> discussions?
> I think that a neat feature would be that you could
have a discussion
> attached to any story. I would be the one to implement
it, and I have
> several years of experience that would lend itself to a
nice solution
> for your project.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -- 
> Karim Nassar

>> From: Karim Nassar <karimgiant-rock.com>
>> Date: October 23, 2007 14:40:41 PDT
>> To: davidjustatheory.com
>> Subject: Forums are future work?
>>
>> Hello there. I have been impressed so far with the
reading I have  
>> done
>> about Bricolage.

Glad to hear it.  I hope you'll consider using it.

>> It seems to be exactly what I need, except that I
see
>> no mention of chat forums, which seems to be a
common feature for  
>> CMSs.
>>
>> 1) Am I too dumb to find the link to the docs about
forums?

No.

>> 2) If #1 is "no", what are your thoughts
about adding forum  
>> discussions?
>> I think that a neat feature would be that you could
have a discussion
>> attached to any story. I would be the one to
implement it, and I have
>> several years of experience that would lend itself
to a nice solution
>> for your project.

Well, the first thing that comes to mind is the work Dawn
Buie and  
Alan Dixon did on integrating Bricolage to Drupal.

http://contenthere.blogspot.com/2007/01/drupa
l-meets-bricolage.html
http://marc.info/?l=bricolage-general&m=1
16912858906996&w=2

I don't know much about Drupal except that 1) It has forums
and 2)  
those forums may have some ui issues. but 3) work is being
done on them.

http://cmsreport.com/no
de/146
http://drupal.org/
project/uieforum

I've copied Alan on this message to see if he can provide us
an  
update on where that Bricolage module stands.

As for putting forums in the actual Bricolage code, I
suspect that's  
a bridge too far.  Check out the "Content Management
vs. Community  
Building" section of this article.

h
ttp://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/08/27/bricolage.html

I think promoting work on that module is the best bet for
adding the  
functionality you're looking for.  Others may think
differently.

-Matt