Something I always wanted to do but never found the time for is creating an install profile for Drupal that would install a ready-to-go forum that is similar to what you get if you install a forum software like PHPBB. I found that many webmasters use PHPBB just because it is easy to set up, even if they know that they want to integrate more functionality that is difficult/impossible to realize with a dedicated forum software.
The aim of this project would be to create an install profile that provides the following features compared to the standard Drupal install:
- Only forum and forum-related modules activated.
- A set of forum-related contributed modules like advanced menu, bbcode and smileys.
- Settings that are similar to the default settings of other forum software like flat comment layout.
- (If needed) A theme that makes the forum look like other forum software.
I do not want to apply to participate in GSOC'10, I just want to submit this as an idea in case somebody considers this worth doing.