Simon Phipps wrote On 04/27/07 10:59,: > > 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.
yah, good idea, I like it. And others liked it, too. The UG lists are starting to get quite diverse now, so this makes sense. Jim -- Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
