This may not advance this particular discussion very much, but: What I would love to see, and what I'm actually surprised that nobody in the FOSS community has built yet, is a discussion board system with a separated back-end that can be attached to multiple front-ends.
The same install could have a web-based front-end and an email front-end, and both would be first-class citizens. (Bonus points if the different front-ends can share account information, so you can post the email interface from home, and the web interface on a public computer somewhere, and the system will understand that both messages come from the same account.) >From there, you could extend the system with an arbitrary number of front-ends: A client that pushes new thread notifications to Twitter? Sure. A bot that pushes new post information to IRC? Sure. A client that automatically generates a new post with every push to revision control? Sure. Multiple web front-ends, because someone wants an app written in PHP, and someone else wants an app built with Ruby on Rails? Sure. I already have enough projects on my plate, but if anyone out there wants to build this, I might be able to pitch in. :-) William Tracy afishion...@gmail.com Cell phone: (805) 704-0917 Internet phone: (707) 206-6441
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