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Hello. I would like to install a software for the discussion of various topics at the university where I work. Does anybody know of a software runing under GPL that do that?
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Juan Carlos
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You could use a mailing list like Mailman

http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/

Or newsgroup server theres loads do a search for NNTP

If you want real time how about an irc (internet relay chat) server?

http://www.funet.fi/~irc/server/

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Jabber isn't too bad for IM stuff.
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I would a software with a frontend something like the one used by "experts-exchange"  for the discussion of each topic separated from the others.
What could be the appropiate software for this purpose?
Juan Carlos
Hi,

if you want  a system somewhat like what you see here on experts exchange then you are looking for a web based forum/bulletin board system.

the best that I can come up with are
Punbb,      http://www.punbb.org/
 Minibb,       http://www.minibb.net/
 Phpbb,       http://www.phpbb.com/

if you want something like what you see here, you'll need a webserver with PHP and a mysql database backend.  the setup on these are fairly straight forward.
there are also demo's on the various websights so you can check them out,  and you can put a
custom skin on them, so you can make them look however you want.

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