Boonex

Evaluation

Forum

Advantages:

• Can subscribe for all topics: http://collab.opensourceecology.de/forum/?action=rss_updated_topics
• Can subscrube for every forum: e.g. "Technik" http://collab.opensourceecology.de/forum/?action=goto&index=1#forum/Technik-0.htm

Disadvantages:

• Cannot subscribe for forum groups (no RSS feed), e.g. "OSE Germany - Projekte" or "OSE Germany"
• Writing new Forum posts
  • no Preview button.
  • Cannot embed youtube videos:
    • cannot just copy-paste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW_X0NUSC0M
    • iframe code is filtered out
  • no image file upload

Blog

Disadvantages:

• Only 1 associated image can be uploaded
• cannot translate blog post in other languages

Videos

http://collab.opensourceecology.de/m/videos/home/

Disadvantages:

• Cannot stream videos from youtube, requires video upload.

Poll

Disadvantages:

• After submitting your choice and reopen the home page, you are given again to choose an option from the poll (although it does not count anymore and does not have an effect)

Chat

Disadvantages:

• No history saved.