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Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Open Source Software: Technological, Economic, and Social Perspectives
A discussion board on the Internet (Wikipedia, 2006 AU15: The in-text citation "Wikipedia, 2006" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ).
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Open Source Web Portals
Vanessa P. Braganholo (DCC/UFRJ, Brazil) and Bernardo Miranda (COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil)
Copyright: © 2007 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-999-1.ch017
Abstract
Open source software is required to be widely available to the user community. To help developers fulfill this requirement, Web portals provide a way to make open source projects public so that the user community has access to their source code, can contribute to their development, and can interact with the developer team. However, choosing a Web portal is not an easy task. There are several options available, each of them offering a set of tools and features to its users. The goal of this chapter is to analyze a set of existing Web portals (SourceForge.net, Apache, Tigris, ObjectWeb, and Savannah) in the hopes that this will help users to choose a hosting site for their projects.
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Chapter 33
Blogs and Forums in a Presidential Election Process in Turkey
An open (online) discussion platform accessible through a web browser. Forums sites are usually designed/constructed in the form of a bulletin board.
Published in Chapter: Blogs and Forums in a Presidential Election Process in Turkey; From: Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends
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Chapter 14
Social Structures of Online Religious Communities
In this context, refers specifically to software which provides an Internet-based public bulletin board, in which mostly text messages are available for anyone to read, organized by topic and tagged with the poster’s online nickname
Published in Chapter: Social Structures of Online Religious Communities; From: Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies
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Chapter 5
Legal Considerations of Institutions Surrounding Student Activism: Colleges, Universities, and Student Speech
The location where speech or expression is carried out. When property is publicly owned, it can be a traditional public forum, a nonpublic forum, or a designated public forum.
Published in Chapter: Legal Considerations of Institutions Surrounding Student Activism: Colleges, Universities, and Student Speech; From: Exploring the Technological, Societal, and Institutional Dimensions of College Student Activism
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Chapter 2
Government Web Sites as Public Forums
Any place for public discourse.
Published in Chapter: Government Web Sites as Public Forums; From: Handbook of Research on Public Information Technology
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Chapter 25
Education and E-Learning Evaluation and Assessment
An asynchronous online communication environment consisting of virtual message boards where it is possible to leave messages in order to create a new discussion or to reply to a pre-existing one.
Published in Chapter: Education and E-Learning Evaluation and Assessment; From: Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology
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Chapter 7
Moments and Modes for Triggering Civic Participation at the Urban Level
Inspired from ancient fora (the public spaces in the middle of a Roman city which held public meeting or assembly for open discussion), online forums allows for messages to be posted and kept on a website for further (public) readings and discussions.
Published in Chapter: Moments and Modes for Triggering Civic Participation at the Urban Level; From: Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City
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Chapter 50
Moodling Professional Development Training that Worked
Users can communicate with each other online in a text-based discussion forum. ( EduTools, 2007 ).
Published in Chapter: Moodling Professional Development Training that Worked; From: Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges
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Chapter 34
An E-Learning Project for a Basic Mathematics Course at the University
Asynchronous communication tool that allows the user to post messages in a space shared with other users. Each post may be followed by a series of replies to the topic of the original post. Forums differ from synchronous communication tools such as chat rooms, because in forums the messages may be posted at different times by users who are not necessarily connected all at the same time.
Published in Chapter: An E-Learning Project for a Basic Mathematics Course at the University; From: Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology
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Chapter 15
Facilitating Mathematical Discourse in Online Learning Environments
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Chapter 23
Social Media and Technology May Change the Culture of Rape on College Campuses
An online site where people can discuss a particular subject by posting messages relaying their own thoughts and opinions.
Published in Chapter: Social Media and Technology May Change the Culture of Rape on College Campuses; From: Handbook of Research on Instructional Systems and Educational Technology
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Chapter 674
E-Culture
An interaction between several participants of the virtual communication through the exchange of messages posted on web-sites, grouped into sections according to the discussion topic.
Published in Chapter: E-Culture; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Third Edition
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Chapter 54
Tracing the Non-Debatable Topic in Online Discussion
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Chapter 8
Web 2.0 Technologies and Foreign Language Teaching
It is an electronic bulletin board where users can discuss various topics with each other, in a central fixed location. The web-based discussion threads are very convenient as people do not have to be connected to the Internet at the same time in order to read each other’s messages. This implies that the time between a message posting and its reply is variable. They are usually organized by themes and/or topics. Some forums are moderated, which implies that one specific person can create new threads. In addition these types of forums require a more standard use of language than others which are not supervised by a moderator.
Published in Chapter: Web 2.0 Technologies and Foreign Language Teaching; From: Encyclopedia of E-Leadership, Counseling and Training
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Chapter 78
Cybercells and the Integration of Actual and Virtual Groups
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Chapter 48
Raising Motivation to Achieve Collaboration in Online Courses
A forum is an online discussion group where participants with common interests can exchange open messages.
Published in Chapter: Raising Motivation to Achieve Collaboration in Online Courses; From: Handbook of Research on Instructional Systems and Technology
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