A new open-source project is born. It is called Motilee, and it is a forum engine written in PHP5 and symfony. Go take a look at the demo site and at the source code to see what it’s like.

Motilee is a symfony application built entirely from plugins. Take a sandbox, pour in the sfSimpleForumPlugin, the sfGuardPlugin, the sfLucenePlugin, the sfFeed2Plugin and a few others, add some documentation, and mix the whole for a few days. There you go, a complete application comes out of the server. Download it and install it as you wish. Motilee is free to use and released under the MIT license.

Motilee focuses on user experience and tries to propose a new approach to online discussions. Don’t focus too much on the graphical design, it will soon be reworked.

A stable release is yet to come, and the most important enhancements are already listed in the trac. Development is going pretty fast, and if you want to participate in the project, there is room for more developers. Drop me an email and I’ll open you an account in the trac.