I am in the process of setting up a not-for-profit community based website. I have been toying with some different scripts. At the moment, I have mkportal + phpbb3 running, but its immensely annoying because mkportal isn't officially supporting phpbb3 yet, so I'm having all kinds of small problems with modules and extensions I add.

I am trying to get the following features out of my site:

-Forums- Powerful Ones. I don't want the light forums that some community scripts come with. They annoy me with their lack of features. Phpbb3 could work for me, maybe vbulletin down the line if I can make the cash.

-User Blogs. It would be really cool if I could a script that intergrates with Wordpress/Lyceum. I really like wordpress, but as long as the blog is moderately powerful, and not outrageously difficult to skin, I'd be happy.

-User Submitted Videos, Articles, Images, and links.

-Some form of chat. I like Flash Chat, but I hear it gets really slow when there are alot of people on. Anyone know if this is true? If so, I suppose I'll stick to PJIRC or something unless someone has a better idea. I would really like a better interface without the need to run an IRC server, but I don't see the option.

Does anyone know of a script that intergrates well with these? Preferably either GPL or relatively cheap.

I've looked at Dolphin, which seems to now be free, though I'm not sure about it...for one, I don't know if I like Orca, and I'm also not sure how "free" it is...anyone have any experience with it?

Try CiviCRM, a community script based on Drupal geared for NGOs.
http://drupal.org/project/civicrm

http://www.opensourcecms.com is pretty much the best place that you can go anywhere to check out different popular scripts.

I've been looking for probably the exact same thing!

I bookmarked this blog to go back to later but maybe it will help you.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/14...ocial-network/

I'm looking for one that's more like MyBlogLog or Blog Catalog where people can just friend each other and add a graphic of recent visitors to their blog like MBL and BC has. With profiles that display recent blog posts and maybe a widget that people can display on their blogs to be faved or added and an option to display the popularity of the blog by visits like a "Top 100."Most of the social packages I've seen are too complicated or have cool features but not the ones I'd like. Maybe if I win the lotto I can get someone to build me something.

Joomla+SMF

Just use a SMF bridge component that let your SMF users have the same username and login in Joomla.

phpnuke, buddy zone, phpfox..theres heaps