Academic Usage of SMF?

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Hello,

Does anyone know where I can find out information regarding using SMF for a University? I am the assistant web developer for the history department at the Ohio State University and have recently been given a website that provides High School and Elementary School teachers with history teaching resources. I am told that the site gets a lot of usage yet there is no sign of this. I thought it would be helpful to establish a interactive community for these educators. Being a long time user of SMF on my personal website I can think of no better piece of software. As a secondary question are there any known issues with SMF and windows servers? I noticed that the system requirements recommend a linux or unix server.

Thank you for your time.

later,
-junc

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SMF will function just fine on a Windows server.  Using an SMF forum for acedemic or educational use is 100% acceptable .

-Dan The Man

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Does anyone know where I can find out information regarding using SMF for a University?

SMF may be used for a university, high school, or mulitnational corporation (such as MSI which does use SMF) - there's no restriction on who can use it, just don't dare sell the software itself or you'll be speaking with some lawyers.

a website that provides High School and Elementary School teachers with history teaching resources.

This is off-topic, but I'm very glad to hear what sounds like this becoming more popular.  The high school I went to was my district's official "digital high school" (and had more computers in it than most others) but the teachers got little benefit out of it indeed.

As a secondary question are there any known issues with SMF and windows servers? I noticed that the system requirements recommend a linux or unix server.

There are no known issues (assuming the server has PHP support.)  It works fine on a variety of server softwares on Windows, although I would recommend Apache 2 (2 is much more stable on Windows than 1) or IIS if you have a choice.  Indeed, I personally develop it primarily with Windows and Apache 2.

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