Hi Jim,

On the new site, on the left-hand nav bar, will all of the OSUGs be  
listed together or will they be mixed in alphabetically with all of  
the other projects and communities?

T



On Oct 1, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM>  
wrote:

> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>> hey ...
>>
>> As we get closer to the final move to XWiki on Oct 26th, I wanted  
>> to point out a naming convention that I'd like to update for all  
>> the OSUGs on the site. It will make navigation cleaner on the new  
>> site and make the OSUG collective space consistent with the  
>> Projects and Community Groups.
>>
>> On the current site, each OSUG is called "XXX OpenSolaris User  
>> Group" and that's the name you see a the top of your Project space.  
>> That name is generated by the tonic web application so you can't  
>> remove it on the current site.
>>
>> On the new site, the OSUGs have been pulled out of the Project  
>> collective and will live in their own collective called User  
>> Groups. Also, the name "XXX OpenSolaris User Group" is handled  
>> differently by the XWiki application. The name appears in two  
>> places: at the top of your space above the search box on the left  
>> and also in the list of OSUGs in the left nav spaces box along with  
>> Community Groups and Projects. Both are navigation elements, but  
>> the name in the nav box is long and creates a lot of line breaks.  
>> For the sake of convenience, I want to update all of the OSUG names  
>> on the /current site/ so they migrate to the /new site/ as just  
>> "Japan" or Atlanta" or "Shanghai" or whatever the first descriptive  
>> name of the group is. In other words, we don't need "OpenSolaris  
>> User Group" repeated 150 times in that list. If we clean that nav  
>> bar up a bit it would be easier to quickly scan through to find a  
>> group.
>>
>> Now, you can't make this text change on your UG Project space on  
>> the current site, but I can so that's why I'm sending this mail. We  
>> only have a few weeks before we move to the new site so it seems  
>> like a good time to do this.
>>
>> Sound good?
>
>
> Just to clarify one thing: If I shorten, say, the "XXX OpenSolaris  
> User Group" to just "XXX" I am doing that just to save space in that  
> long nav bar (which will only grow longer when we add new OSUGs).  
> However, that doesn't mean you can't put a "XXX OpenSolaris User  
> Group" headline at the top of your page on XWiki. The current site  
> does not allow you much flexibility to mess around with the top  
> level headline, but the new site will.
>
> Jim
>
>
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