Diskussion:Boonex

In General

Nearly all "disadvantages" of the evaluation belong to the fact whats currently configured in the Boonex installation. The evaluation doesn't cover whats possible in Boonex, it only covers what was configured by me in a small amount of time. Most of the "disadvantages" are configurable features and could be simply en/disabled by some clicks.

The Wordpress system named in the Comments section is a blog system. This is a completely different type of software system than Boonex. Boonex is a system for social interaction of many people to communicate and interact.

Wordpress is a software system to provide a single blog / website for a web presentation to inform people about whats going on.

collab.opensourceecology.de has the goal to provide better collaboration (Boonex system for _intern_ collaboration) blog.opensourceecology.de (linked to www.opensourceecology.de when it's ready) has to goal to represent OSE Germany to the outside. (Wordpress system)

Forum

The Boonex forum software can be replaced by phpBB 3 - which is the standard and most common php forum software. This software would have none of the named disadvantages. Replacing the default forum software of Boonex by php BB 3 is common in Boonex installations.

Boonex disadvantages in detail

no Preview button. -> preview button can be found in the editor as an icon (2nd toolbar, right hand side)

Cannot embed youtube videos: -> Youtube videos can be embedded by a simple link. For my understanding this is not needed for a project blog where the content mainly comes from the project members, not from youtube.

iframe code is filtered out -> this is a security feature but you can use the HTML mode, can be found in the editor too.

no image file upload -> You can attach files by uploading them (below the text input field, above the submit button)

Blog

All disadvantages named here are config options in the admin interface. Obsolete.

Videos

Youtube streaming is configurable / can be activated by plugin.

Poll

Re-voting can be disabled by a config option / replacing the poll module by an other plugin.

Chat

Can be easily replaced by an other chat module which has an history.

Conclusion

I think we shouldn't focus on software details - which is for my understanding - not productive. In addition I would suggest not to evaluate a highly configurable system from a user point of view. (Who isn't able to know all the config options available in the software)

My vision is that we have one system for collaboration, where every project / member has a personal blog and the people are interconnected and can communicate in real time and that we have _an additional_ system where we represent our organization to the outside (the official blog).

A collab system gives us huge advantages a single blog system would never be able to provide. Sadly I doesn't has more time to present the advantages Boonex can deliver to OSE.

In my toughts collab is our project hub / mission log tool. The blog is our official website.