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Silva Forum

Silva Forum is an extension for Silva that provides a classic discussion forum environment. It can be integrated with OpenID authentication and a CAPTCHA to prevent ‘spambots’ from attempting to post.

Silva Forum allows site visitors to create topics (subjects or questions) and add comments to existing topics. Entries are ordered chronologically and displayed on multiple pages for extended conversations. Users can preview their posting, and a clickable interface for inserting emoticons in messages is provided.

In a typical setup the public can see and navigate the forum pages. Or, a forum can be configured to be viewable only by authenticated users with Silva’s Access Restrictions. If the forum should be private, a public role can be set as well, limiting access to a select group.

Regardless of whether the forum is open to the public or not, in order to post a visitor must authenticate. Authentication can be with various Zope-based approaches or with OpenID.

Credits

Sponsored by the Bijvoet Center for Bioinformatics, Silva Forum was developed as a collaboration tool for scientists working on the EU-funded project GlycoGold (MRTN-CT2005-05645).

Many thanks to Marc Petitmermet at ETH Zürich for making the OpenID functionality possible.

Release version	Release date	Release files
Silva Forum 0.2	27 may 2008 17:47	SilvaForum-0.2.tgz