I was planning on the development of a forum system, ParaBoards, which will be an open source PHP/MySQL driven board, with as much features and flexibility as possible. I have a few supporting users out of this community, which have volunteered to do bug reporting, design, and coding(1 person). And I fear two people working on a system alone is impossible for him and I, so I was wondering if anybody here would want to create one with me and others? If so, please state on what you would think you can help with. I'd appreciate some basic to advanced coders, to make development and deployment even faster.
That is quite a large apple you are about to take a bit of. Forum scripts are no easy thing to grasp, lots of intricacies that make them "fully featured" and that is all people are looking for these days, lots of gadgets, bells and whistles. I am game for an open source project but I would like to have a look at your intentions first. Perhaps a featured list or a work in progress just to see what I would be getting myself into. Is this going sourceforge? What license are you using? Anything new and innovative going into the script? What is your timeframe? What would you expect from your programmers? How much time do you plan on spending on this? I consider myself to be very competent but probably fit somewhere between basic and advanced since I'm self taught (accounting major turned computer geek). Look forward to reply PM or MSN if you would rather 1 on 1
I'm really serious about this project, and I'll need all the help I can get. SourceForge? What do you mean by that? You mean hosting the files on SourceForge? That's a maybe, but it's a high probability. I'm using the GPL License that most open source forums use. I plan to make this project as UNIQUE as possible, while not over doing it with the every day forum features. Do you mean free time? I'm free all the time, after 3:00 PM that is on week days, and all day on weekends I expect them to do their best in contributing to the cause. I don't expect them to work HARD HARD, but if they're going to be on the programming team, they need to show a sign of "I care about this project, and I'm willing to help out". As much time as this takes to be complete
If you need a graphics designer...I may be able to help out a bit for you ...or template designing if it'll be in html...(i'm not good with php...yet)... sounds like a big job, good luck with it....it'll be interesting to see how it turns out...and how long it takes
We're getting many supporters, even so, this'll take a while. Stax, may I see some samples? PM me some. Ps, Spikeon, I know this is a big project, but if you're just here to comment on this being a big project, please don't post in my topic unless you're either gonna make a suggestion or anything that contributes.
Lemme go sort through my files and find my list of recent things i've done ...i'll send a PM in a few... though if you want a head start... http://www.webbusinesstalk.com/forum.php ...I made the style