[Editors] Plug-and-play

Nicole Giese giese at wi.mit.edu
Thu Mar 6 15:46:09 EST 2008


More in the vein of freeware suggestions than recommendations from  
usage...

I asked a friend who is a software engineer and he said he'd heard  
good things about Vanilla, http://getvanilla.com/

Nicole Giese
Web Science Writer
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
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On Mar 6, 2008, at 2:28 PM, William T G Litant wrote:

> Dear all:
>
> Our Aero-Astro grad student association has asked if I could set up  
> a forum on our Web site for newly admitted grad students to post  
> questions about their upcoming MIT lives (or lack thereof), which  
> will then be answered by the association officers - something  
> simple like a Dephi or Yahoo forum that I can plug into an Aero- 
> Astro page design/existing page template. We need this to be quick  
> and simple. Before I go out to see what freeware I can snag (I did  
> this 7 years ago with a neat freeware bulletin board, but the one I  
> used then isn't available anymore) is anyone else using something  
> like this that they can recommend? Again, it's got to be plug and  
> play, and it doesn't need a lot of features - I'm swamped and don't  
> have a lot of time to set it up. Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Best,
> Bill
>
>
>
> "I know what you're thinking, punk," hissed Wordy Harry to his new  
> editor, "you're thinking, 'Did he use six superfluous adjectives or  
> only five?' - and to tell the truth, I forgot myself in all this  
> excitement; but being as this is English, the most powerful  
> language in the world, whose subtle nuances will blow your head  
> clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel  
> loquacious?' - well do you, punk?" - Stuart Vasepuru, 2006 Bulwer- 
> Lytton Fiction Contest
>
> William T.G. Litant
> Communications Director
> Aeronautics and Astronautics Department
> and
> The Partnership for AiR Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> 77 Massachus
>
>
>
>
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