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Simple Machines Forum software, or SMF software, is an open source, Internet forum, message-board program developed by ''Simple Machines''. The name reflects the communities initial goal of providing a program that could be operated by novice programmers and require minimal server resources.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.whoishostingthis.com/compare/simple-machines-forum/ )〕 Simple Machines won ''forum-software.org'' best free forum software award in 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.forum-software.org/best-forum-software-of-2009 )〕 ==Overview== Simple Machines Forum (SMF) is an open-source discussion board software project, which consists of volunteers participating in various operating functions including development, customization, documentation, localization/translation, user support, and marketing. The project is owned by a non-profit organization, named "Simple Machines". Liroy van Hoewijk ("CoreISP") is President and CEO of the Simple Machines organization, William Wagner ("Kindred") is the project manager of SMF. Michael Eshom ("Oldiesmann") is SMF's lead software developer. Simple Machines is organized and operates as a not-for-profit membership corporation organized under Nevada law. To be eligible for membership, a person or entity must be nominated by a current member of the corporation and must complete a written or electronic membership application and approved by the Board of Directors. The organization has not elected to apply for a federal tax exemption pursuant to Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code, however, its bylaws prohibit engaging directly or indirectly in any activity which would disqualify for a 501(c)3 status in the future.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bylaws )〕 The organization is funded by private donations, advertisements on their own website, and income from "charter memberships".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charter membership )〕 Product development and Team SMF's general development is carried out mostly by its own development team. However, since the move to GitHub and re-licensing under BSD, various users of SMF and security researchers have contributed to the source code. The customization team is responsible for designing themes, and performing (security-)checks on community/corporate submitted modifications. The localization team is responsible for translating SMF in to multiple languages. The documentation and localization teams work together on the SMF wiki, powered by MediaWiki and the Translate extension. There are also various teams on the organization side, whom mostly focus on marketing, server maintenance and maintaining their own website. General user support User support is principally provided via the SMF Internet forum / message-board developers and users discuss troubleshooting, optimization and customization of SMF software. Most support is provided by SMF's support team. However, there is a special closed helpdesk for Charter Members. Charter Members The Charter Membership was designed to reward users who donate to Simple Machines. The current reward includes access to a private board, access to a helpdesk for advanced support, new beta versions and early releases of SMF and a special badge on the community. On January 1, 2015, the minimum donation to get this Charter Membership was $50 USD. The advanced support also includes help with installation and upgrades of SMF by the Simple Machines Forum staff.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simple Machines Forum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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