The thing is, what about mike deary who\'s been spending his own money to fund this place? Not really fair to him.
I don\'t see dpeck handing the place over though.
Maybe start a new sure and give deary administration status.
Thus place is crusty balls.
Needs a makeover ssomethin ugly.
Might as well take it elsewhere and maybe score some momentum that could possibly rub off on new fans
If granted admin status, is be more than happy to help out any way I can.
I don\'t come out to many shows these days, so the least I could do is help out in other ways.
Well, I\'ve been researching forum software and different alternatives.
There are none which are substantially better than vBulletin. However vBulletin is proprietary, paid software, which means I won\'t develop with it. Conversion to phpBB is possible but I would need a backup of the MySQL database. But, I don\'t really care about doing this. I\'d rather make a forum for all fans of jazz/rock/funk Fusion music, so it attracts a lot of different people and brings various communities together. Obviously The Breakfast and Kung Fu would get a lot of focus, and existing admins and moderators here would be welcome to retain their positions. Why not?
So, this means building a new forum into some kind of content management system, which could be based on something like Joomla or Wordpress.
And honestly, after looking at all this, I don\'t really think these CMS systems are all that mature at the moment, and phpBB really doesn\'t have much advantage over vBulletin over being free and having better community support.
There is a new version of vBulletin called the Publishing Suite 4.0 which will give an upgraded version of vBulletin that is tied seamlessly into a content management system, which will give you a nice front "news" page and be able to post articles, and have contributing members post articles as well. Basically you could make a full site with this which people could log into, and then click on "Forums"... this costs $300 though.
So, can I do this stuff, sure. Am I going to invest like $500 and several weeks of time to really set it up professionally right now? No.
I may reserve my domain space, however, and keep a close eye on the evolution of free & open alternatives.
Until then, the best thing for
http://www.thebreakfast.info would be to add one or two more people as "Admin", or at least make a few of the more active members "Moderators", so we can share the reponsibility of adding threads to "The Chase" and updating the calendar. vBulletin 3.x doesn\'t have amazing themes, so don\'t expect this site to get a major beautification overhaul the way it\'s currently (and probably will remain) set up.
