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This is a place for posting candidate discussion topics. Let us know where you think they belong, and give a short but informative invitation for people to come talk about the topic. We’ll do the rest!
[Note: all registered users can now create discussion topics!]

Penguin Talk: Technical

This is a place to discuss and suggest technical changes or issues with the Penguin Talk forum system.

Help for beginners

Some quick help for beginners, which we’ll expand as we go along.

The discussions are organized into forums, like “Service Learning” (which can also be inside an umbrella ‘container’ such as “PTO programs”), and each forum has one or more topics for discussion. PTO volunteers who serve as moderators and administrators are the only people who can create forums or forum topics.

Regular users (with a name and password) can create new discussion topics, post comments to each topic, and reply to one another’s comments. These are rather like a tree — you can add a comment to the main discussion, or you can start a branch by replying to someone else’s comment specifically (and you can reply to that reply, and so on).

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Post your comments about the discussion forums here. Like it? Hate it? What works? What doesn’t work? How could it work better? What would you like to see here? Help shape our community project!

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