Well, it's a compliment to the association mailing list.

I've said elsewhere, that "email is a place where knowledge goes to die".

If you've got some files to upload and share, this is a good spot for them.

We'll want to discuss what else we'll use this space for. It may be quite challenging to run a lot of private communications as well as semi-public (members only) and public content through this site. It's about time we tackled this within Drupal :P