<div dir="ltr">Yep it's Discourse. I've been hacking on it for a few months now. It is far from ready for production. People that implement it are essentially on the Discourse pseudo dev team, having to fix bugs and create/manage a stable production environment. <div>
<br>Here are 2 examples of it functional. From what I've heard both of these teams have the Discourse guys baby-sitting their processes for them. They probably only do this for high profile startups like these 2:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://discourse.soylent.me/">http://discourse.soylent.me/</a><br></div><div><a href="https://community.spark.io/">https://community.spark.io/</a><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Steffen Beyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steffen@beyer.io" target="_blank">steffen@beyer.io</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hello all,<br>
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On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 00:17:18 +0900, <a href="mailto:algoldor@foodhackingbase.org">algoldor@foodhackingbase.org</a> wrote:<br>
> I'll make a short wiki page about makgeolli which<br>
> is traditional Korean rice alcoholic beverage, upload it to the wiki,<br>
> manual form is already there in I think proper section (Steffen was<br>
> taking care about that) and lets play with that as an example how to<br>
> link it, tag it etc. that may be the simplest way after that we can<br>
> apply it to the rest keeping to some "structure", what do you think?<br>
<br>
</div>Good idea.<br>
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> <a href="http://design.arkreactor.com/" target="_blank">http://design.arkreactor.com/</a><br>
><br>
> or we can go for some alternative, does anyone know about any<br>
> preferably open source?<br>
<br>
</div>The system is Discourse¹, as far as I can see, a Ruby on Rails<br>
application. Not a bad choice in comparison to PHP. ,)<br>
<br>
Currently we have a wiki and two mailing lists, one at <a href="http://hackerspaces.org" target="_blank">hackerspaces.org</a><br>
and a new one (incubator) at our new host, Uberspace. We should think a<br>
moment where to go from here. The wiki is fine for now, but regarding<br>
forum/mailing list I see two user friendly options:<br>
<br>
1. Stick to mailing lists, offer a web interface for reading (and<br>
possibly writing)<br>
<br>
2. Switch to a web forum, users can subscribe to get email notifications<br>
<br>
Basically I would prefer the first option, providing mailing lists to<br>
power users, web access for the rest of us. In any way, we should try<br>
to get a tight integration with MediaWiki, i.e. at least<br>
Single-Sign-On, instead of running multiple separate systems.<br>
<br>
Software choices seem rather limited, suggestions welcome.<br>
<br>
(...time passes...)<br>
<br>
Just read a bit more about Discourse. It seems to support replying via<br>
email and features pluggable authentication modules, although there is<br>
none for Mediawiki, yet.<br>
<br>
So this might be the way to go...?<br>
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> By the way before I run away we need as a group to talk about how to<br>
> properly cultivate the ginger beer plant and water kefir biofilm<br>
> polycultures.<br>
<br>
</div>I'm using the GBP from <a href="http://gingerbeerplant.net" target="_blank">gingerbeerplant.net</a> here, which worked fine so<br>
far for various brews. Usually I let it ferment openly for three days,<br>
then one day in bottles.<br>
<br>
The growth of the plant is minimal, though. IIRC I read about using<br>
lime (chalk) to feed it. Could this be possible?<br>
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> PS And yes I'm transferring to the new email<br>
> <a href="mailto:algoldor@foodhackingbase.org">algoldor@foodhackingbase.org</a> which Steffen created for me and I guess<br>
> for anyone else who would like to get it :-)<br>
<br>
</div>Sure thing. Forwarding would also be possible.<br>
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> I talked about the idea of bringing people closer to the biological<br>
> principles of fermentation. What do you think of a category called<br>
> Category:Fermentation with two subcategories.<br>
> Category:Fermentation:Alcoholic and Category:Fermentation:LacticAcid.<br>
> We could tag every recipee with it and everynone who is interested<br>
> can have a look at it and understands the principles what is going on.<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, makes sense. But I would suggest an other naming scheme for the<br>
subcategories, as ":" is already used for namespaces. So instead of<br>
Fermentation:Alcoholic, how about<br>
<br>
1. Alcoholic Fermentation<br>
2. Fermentation/Alcoholic<br>
<br>
The first option is very readable – the hierarchy graph does not need<br>
to be represented in the name². And we would gain more flexibility if<br>
one subcategory sometime gains more than one parent. What do you think?<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br>
Steffen Beyer <<a href="mailto:steffen@beyer.io">steffen@beyer.io</a>><br>
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¹ <a href="http://www.discourse.org" target="_blank">http://www.discourse.org</a><br>
² It is done via category tags on category pages:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Categories#Managing_the_category_hierarchy" target="_blank">https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Categories#Managing_the_category_hierarchy</a><br>
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