https://trello.com/ is free and can be good for project organization.

Thank you, I will look in to this. Pandher also just suggested this too.

It is very important that discussion is open to everyone. We can use IRC for real time discussions when needed as you suggested, with a logger.

But I don't think it is going to help us when it comes to continuing discussion.

Yes we need open discussion where the community is aware of what is being discussed and can engage as they wish.