The main objective of the project «Public order and Safety» is to create an open platform to bring together people who are professionally involved and just interested in:
- ensuring public
order and safety;
- combating of
criminality and terrorism;
- activities of
police services and other law enforcement agencies.
One of important
directions for achieving this aim is to create an electronic discussion
platform where project participants could publish their articles and questions,
discuss interesting for them topics, comment and review publications, give and
get advice, look for like-minded persons and co-authors.
We have long
considered various options for such a platform, and came to the conclusion that
of all possible options, most suitable is the forum. Yes, this format is
considered outdated, the peak popularity of forums ended more than 10 years
ago, they have been replaced by social networks, blogs and messengers. However,
for the solution of tasks, scientific and journalistic and similar
associations, it will continue to be relevant, both now and in the near future.
The advantages of
the forum is that it allows participants to create new topics, set the rules
for discussion, attach additional materials (photos, videos, documents, links,
voting, etc.), comment on publications without a limit on the number of
characters, insert quotations, respond in one message to several participants
on specific issues. In addition, it has many other features that allow for
remote discussion with maximum convenience for all its participants. In
addition, the forum has a more convenient navigation, allowing you to create
thematic sections and subsections, distributing the discussion on the thematic
groups. It also has a more convenient built-in search, allowing you to quickly
find the necessary topic or message using keywords and phrases.
Equally important
in such a site is the ability to install language plugins, which allows all
participants to comfortably lead a discussion despite language
differences.
At the moment, as
the main option for the future of the forum considered platform - PHP Bulletin
Board (phpBB). According to all requirements it meets the objectives, while having
an open source and is absolutely free to use. In addition, phpBB has a number
of other advantages:
- easy-to-use
system of templates;
- Multilingual
interface, language files translated into more than 50 languages and freely
downloadable from the official phpBB website;
- Large community
of users who are ready to help;
- Large number of
available and updatable modifications.
We will be glad to any help in work on this forum and the project, anyone who has time, desire, technical knowledge and skills in programming and layout of sites.
Regards.
Project Editorial
Board.
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