Road Map

Group Creation and Access:

• User Created Groups — Ability for users with the right permission to create a new group.
• Public Groups — Ability to create groups which any site member can subscribe and post to the group.
• Announce Only — Ability to create groups which anybody can read but you must be subscribed in order to post to it.
• Private Groups — Ability to create groups which require an invitation to read and post to.
• View When Invited — User can view groups they have been invited to and accept or reject the invitation.
• List Group Option — admin can control if group is listed in the website's groups list
• Various Admin Controls for Content authoring, messaging, adding files, inviting, message moderation (TODO – list based on google groups Access options)
• View Member Control — admins can control if members only can view members or if anyone can view members

Group Administration:

• Content Type Selection — group admins can select which content types group members can create/use in their group (blogs, maps, wiki pages, etc)
• Per Content Item Permissions – group admins can designate if content within public content groups is private and public - so that access can be limited on per content item basis
• Message Moderation — admins can moderate messages, including ability to delegate moderation ability to a subset of group members.
• Group Manager Email Blasts — admins can email members

General Features:

• Group Home — Lists Content added to the group as well as comments by group members. For example a list of groups galleries, groups blogs etc will be on the groups's home page.
• Display Group Created Content as within Group – for example display blog posts created by the group at the groups url.
• Group Listing and Search — Ability to list and search groups as well as browse by category.
• Comments -> Email — Ability to send comments on the group via Email. Members will be able to opt in or out of receiving such messages.
• Email -> Comments — Ability to send email to comments on the group.
• Files Manager - Central repository of files uploaded to the group

Group Look and Feed Management:

• Per Group Theme — each group can select a look and feel for its pages.
• Per Group Layout — each group can customize module assignment
• Per Group Language — each group can be displayed in the language used by the group.