John Poelman and Jeroen Desloovere, two main contributors of Fork CMS, want to start with the development of a forum module. The extension would work together with the profiles module, this will make it more easy to create a community around your website.

The process

The first little steps are already taken by creating a GitHub repo and writing down their suggestions what the basic functionality would look like:

John wrote:

• Using the profiles module for registration (duh)
• Ability to ban users
• Censorship
• Drag 'n drop categories
• Ability to upload images or only hotlinking?

Jeroen wrote:
Modules required:

• Profiles, this module (will) contain:
• Uploading avatar, otherwise using gravatar (I will soon pull request this functionality to fork): TODO Jeroen
• Contains "blocking" users (= ban): DONE
• Forum, backend: (can be copied from Blog?)
• Categories
• Posts
• Comments
• Forum, frontend:
• See questions below

Questions

• Forum, frontend:
• Can users add categories? No
• Can admins add categories? Yes ... to be continued

Which forum software do you use and why? 
And which forum functionality would you want?

Feedback and helping

Do you want to help developing this module? Or do you have great idea? Join the discussion on their issues section. Or start immediately by pushing functionality to github.