[advocacy-discuss] Re: Need help of UG Process

[Jim Grisanzio]

Raju Alluri wrote:

>>hey ... sorry if this is confusing. We are doing
>>several things at once 
>>here, but it will get sorted out. :)
>>
> 
> 
> Not really confusing, I am just getting used to the paradigm shift.
> I am actually helping a remote town to come up with their own user group in the midst of this change, hence the confusion.
> 
> - The notion of "Advocacy Community Group" being the sponsor of the projects-turned-usergroups  is great. That takes care of lot of logistics related questions I had.

Cool.

> - I need some "how to" help when we migrate our HOSUG to project status. I will work with you offline.


That's actually the easy part. :)


> - I seem to get the hang of project status vs. project. Getting closer :-).


It's probably my poor choice of words.

Right now the current user groups have a certain status: they are 
pages/lists inside the User Group Community. Just a long list of pages. 
And everyone has edit rights to everyone else's pages, and the nav bar 
is all messed up and way too long. I can't even get it into alpha order 
it's so long. It's a mess. It wasn't really designed for what we did, 
that's all. So, when the UGs migrate to projects, they'll have a 
different (and better) status: they will have their own project and only 
they will have edit rights to their project. Plus, they'll have a better 
URL, their own nav bar will be easier to read since it will not have 
everyone else's stuff all over the place, they'll have much more 
exposure in other places on the site, and all the other things that come 
along with a project on opensolaris.org. It think it's a great solution, 
and I think the user groups will love it.

So, just remove the word "status" then. The user groups will become 
projects, whereas currently they are not.


> Thanks for your patience in answering our questions Jim!

Any time at all ...

Jim
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Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris


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