Potential features for a future version of CS?

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theosophe74 Posted: Sat, Jan 13 2007 9:41 PM

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Hi,

I'm a member of the Board of Trustees for a Condo Homeowners' Association and I have been evaluating online community portal solutions to assist us in facilitating knowledge sharing, collaboration/participation, and community building.

Some of the solutions that I have examined include One Community and ReadyPortal.   Community Server, though, seems to have more up-front, reasonable pricing as a hosted solution.  Its technical architecture also seems to be very open, stable, maintainable and extensible.

There are a few features, though (see below), that I see in other community portal software offerings that I have yet to see included in Community Server's feature list.

Does anyone know if any of the following features is planned for a future version of CS?  If not, does anyone know if such features are/will be available as plug-ins to the existing or a future CS architecture?

• Calendars and Events
• Surveys and Survey Analysis
• News (External RSS Aggregation, Community-specific news items)
• Submission / Tracking of Online Service Requests
• Live Chat
   

Thanks in advance,

Mike

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Gary McPherson replied on Sun, Jan 14 2007 12:22 PM

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• There is at least one third-party event calendar application in development at present.
• Live Chat is available from CuteSoft, I believe.
• RSS Aggregation is already supported via Mirrored blogs 

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albertramsbottom replied on Mon, Jan 15 2007 11:09 AM

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It would be good to have some sort of classified ad support.

Cheers