This looks like a really good place to start, the software allows for RSS feeds of the forums and any number of sub-forums.  Anyone have a place to put it?  Anyone interested in helping to manage it?

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Troy Murray
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Michigan State University
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-----Original Message-----
From: MSU Network Administrators Group on behalf of Scott Cassaday
Sent: Mon 10/15/2007 4:46 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] IT Collaboration Tools

There is also PHPBB (http://www.phpbb.com/)
I have used it a couple of time... seems really fully featured.
its free and open source...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter J Murray" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] IT Collaboration Tools


>A wiki and forum are really complementary and I'd really like to see both.
>
> A wiki is good for documentation, as well as writing articles on your
> experiences with certain topics.  Mediawiki would fit the bill nicely,
> and it's really easy to setup.
> A forum is good for discussion (such as the on going University-wide
> messaging and calendering system topic).  SMF is free, or we could
> purchase a vBulletin license (really good software).
>
> Would ACNS donate a http://w3vh.msu.edu/ host for this purpose?  I'd be
> happy to volunteer time to set up one or the other, or both, as I'm sure
> others would too.
>
> Why not just do it, instead of talking about how great it would be?
>
>
> Patrick Bills wrote:
>> I also would love to see an MSU IT wiki.
>>
>