*Good* groupware?

[jducoeur]

As most of you have probably seen, I'm going to be running a heraldic-education project over the next year. (If you haven't been on any of those lists and are interested, ping me and I'll give you the details.) For this purpose, I need some sort of fairly conventional, non-technically-oriented groupware -- something that has mailing lists and discussions, allows file upload, and that sort of thing. Yahoo Groups is the usual lowest common denominator for this, but I've never really loved it, so I'm curious what else is out there.

So: do you know of good online groupware (cheap or free) that you would recommend? I'm not interested in the 95 terrible systems that undoubtedly exist -- I'm looking for recommendations of systems that in your experience don't suck, or at least are better than Yahoo...

Comments

[keshwyn]

Fair enough. I love Sympa, but I don't know of any open instances of it. (It's very much a run-your-own-server software.)

I don't know if chandlerproject.org might meet your needs?

[jducoeur]

Probably not right for this purpose -- I'm looking more for a lightweight community-communication tool, not a project-management one.

That said, it might well be useful for my *own* purposes: I normally do this sort of thing with ToDoList, but that's getting sadly creaky around the edges, especially in its complete lack of hosted-ness. So I may consider switching my personal task-management to Chandler, to kick the tires...