Seem to have missed phpbb forums i added. Can we please add it? It is not the prettiest forum bit has the most tools for community growth and development out of all of them.
I also have been in contact with taulant. He said he has received many requests to be the new owner of the forums, but he and the team decided they would prefer to give to me (I never asked him to own the forums, instead approaching him for the community at large, which is probably why). After rceiving the forum from taulant I stated out loud to you chris that I am not comfortable with any one entity (no matter how much I personally trust them) to have ownership. Please dont forget this as we move forward.
The reason is actually simple. I also believe this is why taulant and team decided this route. I am interested in opening community discussion about this further when im ready in the coming days. For now please co sider talking amongst yourselves about the best way to give OWNERSHIP to bitshares community as a whole.
(P.S. I trust you to run them personally)
Thank you for bringing up this important point fuzzy. This proposal is not only about changing the forum software, but also about who will host and maintain it in the future.
My proposal is to bring it back to an active entity within the community. We can think about different models:
- Forum is hosted by voluntary first
- Forum is managed by trusted representative / Proxy, one person has exclusive access
- Forum is managed by trusted representatives / Proxy, multiple people have access at same time
- Forum is managed by trusted representatives / Proxy, one person at a time is having access
Optional condition:
Hosting is paid via worker
As discussed with Fuzzy, I personally think a group solution for hosting the forum is making the subject unnecessary complex. I would prefer that one trusted active community member is in charge of the forum. That would make it easy in terms of the responsibilities, who to contact and also who is in charge to fix something in case of a problem. I prefer to keep things simple.
How we compensate the hosting cost is a different discussion.
Do we have other opinions? For all those who are happy with the current forum, any reason why?