[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of DotGNU Forum System

[peter . minten]

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Peter Minten <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: DotGNU Forum System
System name: dotgnu-forum
This package wants to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Description:
The DotGNU Forum System project (or simply Forum) will provide a platform on 
which webservices that allow simultaneous editing of data by multiple users 
will run. Forum will also integrate the concepts of various existing 
communications technologies (ie, IRC, IM, FTP, HTTP, BBS, USENET). It will 
provide \'plazas\': virtual platforms that can contain data and apps relevant 
to a subject where people can meet and work together on that subject. Various 
basic webservices will be supplied with the program, including a documentation 
browser (for HTML and Texinfo), a download server, a message board and the 
plaza server. A chat system is integrated into the Forum server and 
automatically used for every app.

Forum does not run webservices, instead remotely (or locally) running 
webservices interface with it (using xml communication instead of traditional 
linking). Forum handles the whole chat system so the app (the webservice) 
doesn\'t have to bother with that. Forum itself is also a webservice, written 
in C#. 

No code exists yet but I\'m working on it.

Other Software Required:
Forum requires basic DotGNU support:
 A DotGNU execution enviroment to run in
 Portable.NET as a compiler and runtime library supplier
 DotGNU base libraries

Other Comments:
Forum has already been dubbed a GNU package