[TYPO3-UG US] Solution for mailinglist archive

[Christoph Koehler]

I like it very much!

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 14:55:14 -0600, Alex Heizer <alex at tekdevelopment.com>  
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This was posted this to the typo3-org mailing list, but wanted to make  
> sure everyone here's able to check it out.
>
> --
>
> Michelle and I have been looking for a solution to the mailinglist  
> archive/forum being unavailable that we can offer back to the community.  
> This week we found a forum that automatically pulls from a newsgroup,  
> and individual posts can be added to a knowledge base. As a test, I've  
> set up a forum and imported the TemplaVoila mailing list, plus created a  
> KB article from one of the posts. It supports keyword searching for the  
> forum and KB simultaneously, advanced searches, plus multiple levels of  
> categories and subcategories for both the forum and KB so we can have a  
> forum for each mailing list.
>
> Please take your time to check it out and let me know what your thoughts  
> are. The URL is: http://support.typo3.us:8080/jive/
>
> I've created an admin user for anyone to log in and check out the  
> system. The username and password are: typo3/typo3
>
> We'll host this as a gift for the T3 community, so any suggestions on  
> making this better for all will be greatly appreciated. It's very  
> stylable, so we'll make it fit in very nicely with the new CI!
>
> Its features include: automatic pull from newsgroup, automatic post to  
> newsgroup from logged in users (as long as the user is signed up to post  
> on the mailing list), and an RSS feed for each forum, post and KB  
> article, ability to watch posts and threads, and for users to suggest  
> posts to be turned into KB articles. Lots of big companies are using  
> this, including:
> Apple: http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa
> Amazon: http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/index.jspa
> BBC: http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/
> Oracle: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/
> HP: http://devresource.hp.com/forums/index.jspa
> IBM: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/community/
>
> It's normally a $18,950 (USD) application, but Jive Software is donating  
> it to us because T3's an open source project, and Jive is a big  
> supporter of open source (and has donated a lot of time to open source  
> projects).
>
> Cheers!
> Alex Heizer