I'm looking at Community Engine as exactly what my group needs to migrate away from these multiple places we have a presence- Facebook, Meetup.com, etc. But the one piece of functionality I know I can't leave behind (not without starting a riot) is what we have with our Yahoo! Group. Meaning, the combination of a mailing list and a forum into one entity, so that members can participate in the discussion however they like- either on the website by logging in to Community Engine, or "staying home" and just sending and receiving the messages via email.
Without even considering Community Engine, I have done extensive searching for some kind of product or package that would do this, but it appears that it simply does not exist- or more likely, it isn't available at a price my group could pay (which isn't to mean we need it free, but the amount we could pay is so little that might as well be the case). I have spoken with the administrator of one site using Community Engine, and he indicated to me that it would not be difficult to work with the MySQL database and connect the forums to just about any mailing list software. But he does seem to indicate that scripts would have to be written- something he might could help me with, but I don't know this person well enough to get into that right now. So I'm posting this message here to see if anyone has any suggestions on what direction I should take, perhaps someone else has done this or investigated this and knows of a possible solution they can suggest. I realize that the situation I'll probably have on my hand is that everyone will have to sign up for the Community Engine, and then everyone will have to independently sign up for the mailing list, but it's most likely that we'll only have a single forum/mailing list anyway so we won't make people figure out which mailing lists to sign up for. Thanks in advance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CommunityEngine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/communityengine?hl=en.
