Help Creating a Forum

[dean]

Hi gang!

I'm just looking for some advice/links for starting a free, easy to use forum.  Basically I'm wanting to create something for one of my classes at uni so that we can all swap ideas and get organised [since it's film work there's alot of organisation for locations, times, actors etc] and I figure a forum format will be easier to keep track of everything in a linear fashion rather than just clogging people's emails and having a heap of emails with no cohesive structure.

I'm going to see myself what's out there, but figure some of the more expert-like folk may have a place to look they know is reliable and, more importantly, free, since I'm only going to keep it a couple of months until the class finishes in June.

Thanks!

[ghouck]

There's PHPBB and SMF, I'm quite sure Andrew uses SMF (Shadow Machine Forums?). Although I don't have much experience, I've used both. They work pretty well, but I did more customizing in PHPBB and, well, it's possible, pretty much everything I wanted to change I was able to, even with my very limited PHP skills. Not sure how much that helps, but it's my <$.02