[advocacy-discuss] OSUG Collective Landing Page

[Teresa.Giacomini at Sun.COM]

Hi Jim,

The intent of the list of OSUGs is to have one place where an individual 
can go to look to see if there is an OSUG in their area.  So, if the 
list that shows up on the landing page is not able to include all OSUGs, 
since some do not have spaces on XWiki, I do not think the list should 
be displayed at all.  It will only be confusing.  If however, the 
auto-generated list can be edited periodically to include the OSUGs that 
do not have a space on XWiki, that would be OK too.

I've been talking to some of the OSUG leaders about what they would like 
to see in the OSUG hub.  I'd like to understand a bit more about the 
relationship between this landing page and other pages available to all 
OSUGs.

Thanks,
T

On 11/05/09 09:29, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> hey ... just to follow up on this thread a bit more:
>
> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=117218&tstart=0
>
> Since OSUGs are a Collective now on the new site, they get a landing 
> page here (just as Projects and Communities):
>
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/usergroups
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/communities
> http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/projects
>
> Currently these 3 pages are hand edited, but in the near future the 
> lists of Collectives on the pages will come directly from XWiki/Auth 
> automatically, and we`ll just add some context with pointers at the 
> top. In the case of Communities and Projects, it`s easy since we only 
> have groups on this XWiki site we will be displaying. However, in the 
> case of User Groups, it gets more complex because Advocacy points to 
> many groups that are NOT on this site but have their own 
> infrastructure elsewhere. Also we have multiple display formats for 
> the user groups -- a table, a list, a map -- that all represent 3 
> slightly different subsets of groups and the pages are owned by 
> different people. There is no single list of OSUGs, in other words. 
> They all overlap. The only groups that will be displayed on the 
> landing page will be the ones that have spaces on XWiki since that 
> list will come from the Auth database. So, for that reason, we should 
> move the map and calendar from the landing page to the Advocacy pages. 
> That`s where they belong so the community can have access to edit 
> because only admins can edit the top level of the site (which is what 
> the landing pages are). Also, this way we can prepare for the 
> auto-generated landing pages and we`ll be consistent with the landing 
> pages for Projects and Communities.
>
> Jim
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