Copyrights and Attribution

Copyrights

Except where specifically noted otherwise or listed in the Attributions below, all content on the Open Forum Foundation website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, aka the BY license. In brief, this means that you can use any written content on this site for whatever you want, as long as you credit its source. The easiest way to do this is by linking directly to the page that contains the content you are using. Alternatively, you may reference the Open Forum Foundation and provide a link to its top level URl (http://openforumfoundation.org).

Read the full legal details here.

Attribution

As is the case with most things in the modern world, the Open Forum Foundation would not be able to accomplish what it does without standing on the shoulders of giants. Listed below are some of the obvious giants on whose shoulders we stand directly upon:

Artwork

• Javier Odriozola provides a very nice set of icons, from which several of our icons are borrowed.
• Komodo Media provides a great set of social media icons that we use sprinkled around the site.

Website

• WordPress acts as the content management system and blogging software.
• MediaWiki provides the wiki software and social profiles for the Community.
  • The plugins in use on the MediaWiki installation can be found here.
• The custom themes for both were designed by MuNiMulA.

WordPress plugins

Part of what makes WordPress great is the nearly infinite selection of plugins that extend its functionality. Below are the ones that are enabling this website to be what it is.

• AWS Easy Page Link v0.5
  Easier way to link to already existing pages in your WordPress siteDerek Ashauer
• Akismet v2.4.0
  Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need an API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin.Automattic
• BuddyPress Group Email Subscription v2.7.1
  Allows group members to receive email notifications for group activity, especially forum posts, or weekly or daily digests.boonebgorges, Deryk Wenaus, David Cartwright
• BP Group Documents v0.3.5
  This BuddyPress component creates a document storage area within each groupPeter Anselmo, Studio66
• BuddyPress v1.2.5.2
  Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress.The BuddyPress Community
• BuddyPress Wiki Component v1.0.0
  Enables site and group wiki functionality within a Buddypress install.David Cartwright
• BP Group Management v0.4
  Allows site administrators to manage BuddyPress group membershipBoone Gorges
• BuddyPress Template Pack v1.0.2
  Add support for BuddyPress to your existing WordPress theme. This plugin will guide you through the process step by step.apeatling
• Google XML Sitemaps v3.2.4
  This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com to better index your blog.Arne Brachhold
• OpenID v3.3.3
  Allows the use of OpenID for account registration, authentication, and commenting. Also includes an OpenID provider which can turn WordPress author URLs into OpenIDs.DiSo Development Team
• Post Template v3.4.2
  A plugin that allows you to create post templates in order to save time writing posts having the same structure. You are having the latest free version. However, since it has gone into commercial licensing, Post Template has plenty of bug fixes and lots of new cool features. Please visit the plugin page to know more about it!Vincent Prat
• Post Notification v1.2.39
  Sends an email to all subscribers. See Readme2.txt or instructions for details.Moritz Strübe
• Page Links To v2.4
  Allows you to point WordPress pages or posts to a URL of your choosing. Good for setting up navigational links to non-WP sections of your site or to off-site resources.Mark Jaquith
• Plugin List v2.3
  By placing in your page or post by sources code or using toolbar icon ‘Plugin List’ in your Rich text editor(only if enabled) plugin replaces it with list of currently installed WordPress plugins.Martin Wiso
• Redirection v2.2.5
  Manage all your 301 redirects and monitor 404 errorsJohn Godley
• Subscribe To Comments v2.1.2
  Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry. Based on version 1 from ScriptygoddessMark Jaquith
• Section Widget v3.0.4
  Display arbitrary text or HTML on certain sections of your site.Godfrey Chan (UBC OLT)
• Subpages Navigation v1.0
  Create subpages navigation menu with sidebar widgets and shortcodes.Enej Bajgoric / Godfrey Chan / Michael Ha / OLT
• Ultimate Google Analytics v1.6.0
  Enable Google Analytics on your blog. Has options to also track external links, mailto links and links to downloads on your own site. Check http://www.oratransplant.nl/uga/#versions for version updatesWilfred van der Deijl
• WP-Mail-SMTP v0.8.6
  Reconfigures the wp_mail() function to use SMTP instead of mail() and creates an options page to manage the settings.Callum Macdonald
• WP-phpMyAdmin v2.10.3
  Provides phpMyAdmin from the WordPress admin consoleRoland Rust, Christopher Hwang
• WordPress Database Backup v2.2.3
  On-demand backup of your WordPress database. Navigate to Tools → Backup to get started.Austin Matzko
• WP Ajax Edit Comments v3.1.1.0
  The most powerful comment-editing solution for WordPress. Users can edit their own comments for a limited time, while admins can edit all comments.Ajay D’Souza, Ronald Huereca
• WP CSS Dropdown Menu v2.3.7
  Creates a navigation menu of pages with dropdown menus for child pages. Uses ONLY cross-browser friendly CSS, no Javascript.Isaac Rowntree