Welcome back to the open source forum shootout, here at FOSSwire. In this part, I’m going to take a look at PunBB. Like all of the other forum solutions I’ve covered so far in this series, PunBB is written in PHP. The current stable is 1.2.17, and development work is being done on the 1.3 branch. For now, I’ll take a look at 1.2.17.

In this multi-part post, I’ll be going through and looking at several different open source forum solutions. First up, and the subject of this post - bbPress.

In part 2 of this multi-parter, I’ll be looking at open source forum solution Phorum. Just as before, I’ll cover Ease of Installation, Features, Extensibility and Themes.

The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a nonprofit, vendor-neutral consortium dedicated to driving interoperability and adoption of comprehensive open solutions, today announced its worldwide Customer Forum Series.

"The World Social Forum has played an integral part in the adoption of the free software through the Americas as well as in developing countries around the world. For this reason, the WSF is topical for this blog. Roberto Savio is probably among the best informed insiders at the World Social Forum (WSF)..."

After five years, over 200,000 lines of new and altered code, and many a long night phpBB Group is very proud to announce the release of phpBB3 "Olympus".

Free Software Foundation Europe: «... From September 17th to 21st 2008 the European Social Forum (ESF) is being held in Malmö, in the south of Sweden. More than 20 000 people are expected to participate in the forum, which is a meeting place for social movements in Europe.

"...From September 17th to 21st 2008 the European Social Forum (ESF) is being held in Malmö, in the south of Sweden. The forum is by far the biggest meeting place for social movements and a progressive civil society in Europe - with the aim to create a better Europe and a better world. More than 20 000 people are expected to participate in Malmö.

If you’d like to pick [the] brains [of the biggest names in open source], not to mention those of other open source professionals, get yourself over to the CIO Executives Online forum before the end of the week.