phpBB Support Community
Posted by Sean Gardinier on October 30th, 2007
I have talked to several people who have been interested in how I have been using forums in the classroom. Teachers and such often ask, “How can I get that!?” As soon as I tell them to get their own server, learn some web basics, and install the thing, they quickly think it must be a technical nightmare.
Actually, with some basic net know-how, there is plenty of support and expertise for phpBB. Actually, I’ve never experienced a more positive and helpful community.
phpBB’s Support Community runs on phpBB, of course, and is a great way to see how the structure of a topic forum community works. Much of the discussion right now is about the new version bugs and development. There are discussions going on between web developers, code junkies, MOD writers, administrators, and users about anything and everything related to phpBB. phpBB is in fact a product of the community.
I think the Support Community is an interesting place to see and watch. It has changed quite a bit over the years with varying degrees of traffic depending on needs and development stages. Actually, it would be a good case study to see how ideas develop and are implemented in an open source environment. Dissertation anyone?