The 2007 roadmap

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First Quarter

During the first quarter we will finalize the internationalization of the software, and it is likely that the localization factory will start to produce translated versions of YACS.

Additional development efforts are also foreseen to ease the management of content pages available simustaneously in several languages.

YACS will better support UTF-8 databases, since this is mandatory to support search requests in non-ASCII languages.

The list of new features added during the quarter is not fixed yet, and we already have a large to-do list. Moreover, we will probably focus on a couple of e-commerce sites, all based on YACS, that are under development.

More importantly, during the quarter this site will be entirely reshaped. The most important driver for this change is to make our process more explicit and transparent to the IT professionals and partners who are using YACS and trusting us. And, of course, we definitely have to change this skin.

Half of Year

As a follow-up of the very first "YACS University" that has taken place in October 2006, a new set of meetings will be prepared to further share live with new practitioners of the YACS approach. From technical details up to information management, there is so much to know about YACS!

A strategy will also be defined to embrace the so-called Web 2.0 dynamic. This will come from an open discussion between selected partners of the YACS initiative, as per process defined during first quarter.

End of Year

Three years ago, YACS started as a little piece of PHP/MySQL written for personal use of a lonesome developer.

Last year, we were successfully introduced to Framasoft by Fernand, and, in Q4, reached the significant level of 150,000 lines of code.

In 2007 we hope to get a strong positive feed-back from the Open Source community, and not only in France.

This, of course, will come from the maturity gathered through a growing community of users, designers and developers. More importantly, we believe that our success will derive from the professional attitude demonstrated by the network of partners that collaborate to the platform.