I created a new IRC channel on freenode for real-time discussions between RCom members and the community and to coordinate work within RCom without the need of skype. You'll find me idling there during office hours (9.30am-6pm Pacific time) and occasionally later at night.
irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-rcom
If you wish to join but are not familiar with IRC, check out this page for instructions: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC Once we have a decent number of people regularly idling in this channel we can advertise it on the lists to provide quasi-rt support to external researchers.
Dario