Thanks Paulo,
On 29/01/2019 17:33, Paulo Moura wrote:
> Hi Jan,
>
> I also have been looking recently for a good option to consolidate
> Logtalk announcements list, forums, and chat room into a single
> service. I inevitably come across Discourse. The advantages I see in
> it is that it includes an importer for the forum software I use
> (phpBB). For SWI-Prolog, importing the contents of the mailing list
> would be a high priority, I assume. That seems to be supported:
>
>
https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-mailing-lists-mbox-listserv-google-groups-emails/79773
>
> Discourse also offers free hosting to open source projects under a
> set of conditions:
>
>
https://blog.discourse.org/2018/11/free-hosting-for-open-source-v2/
>
> May SWI-Prolog qualifies? The disadvantage I see in Discourse is the
> high hosting price if not hosting in own server. Self hosting also
> have its costs in maintenance time.
It seems likely that SWI-Prolog qualifies for the free hosting. Fully
paid hosting is too expensive (unless some commercial partner wants to
sponsor it). On the other hand, there is 85% educational discount for
which we probably can apply as well.
I have the impression that self-hosting is fairly easy to set up. All
in all, I think that getting it running is doable, one way or another.
> I also looked into alternatives such as spectrum.chat but didn't find
> so far any with same attractive feature set as Discourse.
Good to know. I'll wait for some more feedback. If nothing blocking
or more interesting comes up, applying for free hosting as open source
project is a sensible next step.
Cheers --- Jan