OpenTelegard/2

OpenTelegard/2

Screenshot of Login & Main Menu
Original author(s) Chris Tusa
Developer(s) Chris Tusa
Development status Active Development
Written in JRuby (programming language)
Operating system Linux BSD
Platform OpenJDK
Available in English
Type Bulletin board system
License Bsd license
Website http://www.telegard.org/

OpenTelegard/2 (OpenTG) is an open-source implementation of a bulletin board system (BBS) software program written for Linux and/or Unix. Written from scratch in Ruby, the goal is to reproduce the look, feel, and functionality of similar legacy BBS systems such as Telegard or Renegade, which were written for DOS and OS/2 during the pre-internet communication era. No original code is being used or referenced.

On August 17, 2008, the project was founded by Chris Tusa with work on version 1 of the code. A year later, development on this branch, now known as OpenTG/1, ended. The back-end configuration tool had taken shape using the NCurses library, and database abstraction using ruby-DBI and PostgreSQL for the backend database engine. The developer deemed this version of the code a failure due to problems maintaining NCurses screen layouts and SQL queries through DBI.

With lessons learned and upfront design planning, iteration two now known as Telegard/2, is under heavy development. The code has moved from MRI Ruby to JRuby running on OpenJDK. The latest code introduces:

Current goals

More status and goal information is available on the project homepage.

Software Stack

The following is a listing of software components used in Telegard/2

Tested development platforms

The following are tested operating system platforms used by the developers:

Developer information

This project is founded and currently led by Chris Tusa. It is hosted on Launchpad (website) and uses Bazaar for source code control. Developers can find information about contributing on the project's website.

See also

External links

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