On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:57, Stephen Lau wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:48:24PM +0900, Jim Grisanzio wrote: >> Ok, cool. So, for naming, what would you suggest? Do you want them >> all >> listed on the projects page under their abbreviations or their full >> names? And should they mix in with everything else under whatever >> their >> first name is alphabetically or be grouped together under "UG >> [name]"? >> >> So, >> >> UG Argentina OpenSolaris User Group AOSUG >> UG Atlanta OpenSolaris User Group ATLOSUG >> UG Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group SVOSUG >> ... (50) or so more ... >> >> Something like that? By putting "UG" in front, they should all be >> listed >> in one block on the projects page just like they are on the >> discussions >> page http://opensolaris.org/os/discussions/. Otherwise, they'll be >> spread out among all the other projects. > > Right, I'd prefer they be displayed together; ideally, the user groups > would be on their own page so we can more easily separate them - > but the > current webapp implementation doesn't make that possible > unfortunately. > > Prefixing with "UG" will solve the display problem, yeah - though it's > kind of a hack. I suppose we could do that for now until at some > point > in the future we get better webapp support for doing a better > solution.
One thing I suggested in the user groups list was to gather groups by language, so that non-English speakers would find a batch of mailing lists where they felt comfortable participating even if they weren't geographically related. This complicates matters as at present we do not have a hierarchical system for projects-within-projects. One solution would be to prefix UG-xx where xx is the language code; thus UG-EN UK - London LOSUG UG-EN USA - Denver FROSUG UG-ES Argentina AOSUG UG-ES Spain UG-FR France - Paris UG-PT Brasil - Sao Paulo UG-PT Brasil - Brasilia UG-PT Portugal and so on. A better solution would be to fix the webapp though :-) S.
