Discussion Forum in Google Sites

I'm working on a Google site and wondering if anyone has come up with a decent discussion forum solution? I've seen some hacked up solutions using Google Spreadsheets and such... but it's a little too MacGuyver for me. I'd like to keep things contained in Google, else I'd just use an Embedded PHPBB Installation.

From web app Longos

• If you are talking about a discussion forum for the dev team I would try Google Wave, it seems pretty good for something like that.

  Otherwise if it is for the community then have you tried Google Groups? It seems like the perfect solution.

  Michael : Much too fast for me. :)
  From RandomBen

• Google Wave is proabably the next best thing. You can embed waves into whatever web page you want to create a discussion out of and even make certain pages publicly editable or private.

  From Michael

• I don't think you can change the "template" of a site once it's been created (yes, I know you can change the base template for individual pages, but I'm talking about the template for the entire site), but if you create a new site, you can create it based on one of the discussion forum templates listed in the template gallery.

  Simply choose to make a new site, and in the template section just choose the "browse the gallery for more" link at the end. Do a search for "discussion" or "forum" or whatever. That'll set you on the right path, I think.

  Also, I'll echo these other two answers by recommending Google Wave as a good, embeddable solution for your situation.

  From jrc03c

• One other option with Sites itself: Create a new page of type "Announcements." While a bit "bloggish" I think it could work as forum too. Each of your forum posts would be an announcement post. Clicking through to each post gives the option to add comments.

  Not glorious, but it does keep it all in Sites. :-)

  From Chris_K