Open source forum?

[Zoints]

I'm of the opinion that an open source forum would be beneficial to vb.org and forum owners.

1. A lot of really cool modifications are here at vb.org. Unfortunately, many end up no longer being supported after awhile for one reason or another. When that happens, I'd bet that many of the devs would be willing to release the code to the community via the open source forum for further development.

2. I know a lot of people who don't release hacks because they don't want to support them. Supporting a hack is HARD and VERY time consuming. Yet there is a lot of quality code out there that could benefit the masses if it was simply released.

3. Good open source dev can't go on in normal threads.

Obviously this would take some planning to implement. But I sincerely think it could be good for vb.org and forum owners in the long run. I usually don't do "forum requests" as I think it somewhat rude, but you guys have been doing some great work on this site lately so thought i'd give it a shot. To be fully transparent I will say that I'd move a couple of our hacks to the open source forum.

Thank you for your consideration.