discussion forums

Dear all, I just want to share some few links about tools which help improving online collective conversations with the aim of fostering collective intelligence.
Develped inside FP7 european framework's Catalyst project, there are some cool tools.

ASSEMBL, LITEMAP, DEBATEHUB, EDGESENSE

I'm currently working on Harmony Forum which is a native Drupal forum built with two entities (Thread and Post) with Taxonomy for categories should you want them.

That's the shortest possible description which outlines an entity based forum, a bit more in depth would be leveraging contrib as much as possible to produce something like Discourse (http://try.discourse.org). All whilst coding so that Views are used and can be overridden, display elements can be changed with Field UI and that there are plenty of hooks and chances to jump in and do what you need to.

A new project.

I think we all know that the built in Drupal forum is lacking, and currently it is a roadblock for many site developers, myself included. So in the community spirit I am inviting anyone and everyone to contribute ideas, theories, time, code, anything. it is way more than anyone can handle alone, but with colaboration it can be done.
Currently I named it "Colloquium", but feel free to suggest names :)

I am going to start a few other topics for the purpose of brainstorming, and will post them here.

John

Hi there,

This is a bit of a long shot but I'm hoping to get some advice on forum generation through rules. My site is primarily organized through an extensive taxonomy. What I'm hoping to achieve with rules is this:

Taxonomy 1 (fruit)
New term is saved (apple)

Create a forum for apple with a standard set of containers

-History
-Recipes
-Msc

Is this possible with rules? I was playing around with loading the forum vocab and adding Apple as a new forum that way, but so far no luck. Any tips or advice anyone could share would be awesome.

Thanks!
Amy

Hi All,
I am wondering if anyone is running a bboard, discussion list platform, forum, or anything like that on your Drupal site(s).
It's time for my org to start a discussion space for our constituents. We could use Google Groups or Ning... but of course owning it on our own server is always best. But alas I am one part-time techie with few other staff resources.
So I am just wondering if there are any Drupal discussion platform modules that people are happy with.
Thanks!
Johanna