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Run completed, stupid vaio keyboard still not working, sigh.
Looking through them and the different setups people have, I agree, buddypress does seem like a good solution. One caveat I’ve read a lot though about buddypress is the difficulty in theme wrangling, just as an fyi. I also agree that after going through it all, wp-symposium has too many features for our needs. It is always possible that after running one system for a year or more, we may want different options or more, but buddypress is a good place to start.
The facebook integration use wouldn’t be mandatory, but for people who don’t want yet another acct, it’s a quck and easy way to log in.
I’m still researching the different QA things; if you require a login, that might help with abuse potential, but ideally, in my perfect internet world, the faq would be pretty straightforward questions. i.e. “Q. Does Twitarr use outside internet? A. No, it is an intranet only onboard. Wiki on twitarr (link), twitarr development forum (link)” etc. Hopefully it would work that way. If we found it wasn’t, we could always switch to a different kind of FAQ plugin. Or set aside an area on the wiki for it. It doesn’t work well for convos. As a night owl, I have spent a fair amount of time on YahooAnswers for shits and giggles. It is filled with insanity, but also has some great info. I help kids with their spanish homework (though I refuse the ones who want you to do the whole thing) That site has millions of users, most of whom aren’t “invested” in the group, like we would be. But the upside is that it allows for crowdsourced answers and keeps the forums clear of those cut and dry questions. Having a way for admins maybe to star questions, or maybe cull them from the qa section into a more static faq. If that is done in the wiki though, you would not necessarily want to make it generally editable. That might be better as a blog post?
Uh, if I didn’t mention it before and it wasn’t completely obvious, I’m happy to help 😀