Hi Richard,

The Bulletin Board application is looking good - I'll certainly try it when I have a chance - will it be included with the lastest version of XWiki?

no, most probably not. The XWiki dev strategy is that modules & applications shall be separated from each other as much as possible. Therefore the BB won't probably be in the next release of XE. 

However please note that since none of the BB files overwrites existing XE pages, you can safely and easily import it in a fresh install of XE. The full process will take around 3 minutes, each step is detailed here : http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Applications/BulletinBoardApplicationDownloads

 
Guillaume