I have Just downloaded and installed a very nice "forms" System. It took me 1 minutes to download and 10 minuets to install (Including reading the documentation). It has lots of advantages over the http://phorum.org/ system. With e-mail getaways chats and more. Have a look at:
http://phpnuke.org/ (..this one..)

Same dependency on Apache-PHP-MySQL. Same no-brainer dropin. And GPLed.

Just my $0.02 experience thought you would like to know.

Jeremy Newman wrote:
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 16:25, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
  
On 23 Oct 2003, Jeremy White wrote:

    
Further, I think it may be time to recognize that cool looking
forums are what users expect; that mailing lists and newsgroups
are really becoming the 'old' way of doing things.
      
I for one don't think highly of other forms of forums, but this
is not the issue. I think we should fix the gateway, and also
    

The gateway is a dead issue. Back in the day it was pretty nifty to get
listed on USENET. Unfortunately newsgroups these days are a mess, and
IMO should go away. I intend to not look into it any further.

  
provide one of these fancy forums. If people like them, all
power to them. In fact, I think we should implement the Slashcode
(or something similar) for the News box. Would be very nice to
see the reactions of people to important news that happen in
the community, but are not *that* important to start a thread
about on wine-devel.
    

The software I mentioned to Jer that we could implement is 
Phorum. http://phorum.org/ I've played with it in the past,
and integrating it into the current site is dead easy.

As far as slashcode goes, we already have a news system. all someone
needs to do is submit articles to be posted. Just submit a patch to
wine-patches in the news XML format I use, and I will most likely add
it.