While most of my work these days is re­lated to pho­tog­ra­phy, I do have a few other hob­bies, one of which is pro­vid­ing sup­port on phpBB.com. ph­pBB is a fo­rum sys­tem, based on a cod­ing lan­guage called PHP. As part of that project, I be­came aware of a smaller, less-well-know fo­rum so­lu­tion called Vanilla. I wanted to test my­self and see if I could cre­ate a con­verter for switch­ing from Vanilla to phpBB3.

Thus, the Vanilla 2 phpBB3 project was born. The project is be­ing hosted by Source­Forge and has a nu­mer­ous fea­tures, in­clud­ing a blog. The process of cre­at­ing the con­verter will take some time, but it should be worth it in the end.