John Beck wrote: > SteveL> This may just be me, but I hate the term "SIGs"... it's just too > SteveL> politically negative to me... from US politics with special interest > SteveL> groups funding negative attack campaigns. > > As someone who also lives in the US and pays close attention to politics, I > have the same dislike for that term. > > > SteveL> Unfortunately I don't have a better alternative at the moment. I > SteveL> prefer "Communities" to SIGs, but I appreciate Jim's reasoning for > SteveL> wanting to ditch the term. > > Here are some thoughts: > > * The most accurate terms IMO would be "micro-community" to replace SIGs > and macro-community to refer to OpenSolaris in the large. These terms > are somewhat clumsy though for everyday use. > * We already have user-groups. Most communities/SIGs that don't fall into > the user-group bucket seem to be technology related. In other words, it > seems to be generally true (though not completely true) that the thing > that ties each group together is a common interest in a particular > technology. Therefore I wonder if "technology groups" (or perhaps > "tech groups" for short) might be a helpful term? > > Interesting, 'technical/technology' is the term I used to describe communities in the new splash page content because it is more accurate and meaningful. So, this works for me already, for example:
"OpenSolaris *technical groups* <http://opensolaris.org/os/communities#portal> maintain kernel and userland software and launch new technology* **projects* <http://opensolaris.org/os/projects#portal>." It also translates well compared to anything hyphenated or 'special interest' which could get garbled or lose meaning across languages -Michelle > -- John > > http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss >
