how many people are you talking about?
basecamp is a suggestion.
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how many people are you talking about?
basecamp is a suggestion.
10 to 20 max
Set up a blog or livejournal and have them discuss the issue in comments -- note that either of these may get spammed up in the longer term if you don't have any kind of login and/or captcha hoops in place, but if you just need a quick place to discuss off-list, it's an easy setup and easy interface for your commenters.
I should add that this site should be free. Basically, I run a weekly basketball game for old folks like me, which has started to degenerate due to arguments over embarrassingly stupid things. (Does this kind of thing follow me around?) Anyway, I wanted to run a short "lightbulbs" for my group so we can hash out viable options to the problems we've been having, and then run a surveymonkey to get a (bullshit) consensus.
Wolfram, insent.
There are message boards like voy.com, which have threaded topics.
(Does this kind of thing follow me around?)
Nah, it's not just you.
I thought about doing a blog, but it seems like overkill? I may end up going that route.
It just seems like a free short-term message board is the type of thing that should already be out in the interwebs. I just can't find it.
Wolfram, basecamp is indeed free and you can do forums and real time chat. If you want to store files - that's when it starts getting pricey.
Wow basecamp really hides the free there, but I finally found it. Or maybe I'm just daft.
Funnily enough, the 37signals thing sounded really familiar and I ran a search for it in my gmail. Found out I already have a free backpackit account which allows me to create writeboards on which people can comment. That may work.