Comment: Improving Community Communication

Thank you very much for your suggestions. For the YACS team it is very clear that even if web technologies are central to modern communication, they are not the only way to support highly collaborative staff.

Let me add a couple of comments to these :

 mailing lists - the challenge comes probably from the fact that people have very accustomized to mail tools. YACS allows for mail-to-web posts, which is great to publish information readily available in mailboxes. YACS allows also for the bulk transmission of mail newsletters, to incentivate people to come back to the site. For the future, we are looking for a good NNTP-to-web package, because newsgroups may be more handy than mail messages on the long run.

 IRC - feel free to install any IRC server you like on your YACS server. At lest, YACS lists IRC addresses published at user profiles. YACS also supports other popular messengers, such as ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, Skype, etc.

 Trac/Bugzilla - at some point we will do that, definitely

 Version Control System - this will also come in the future, even if our aim is to push a single set of powerful scripts as far as possible