[ogb-discuss] Community Simplification

John Plocher John.Plocher at Sun.COM
Fri May 16 09:56:11 PDT 2008


Alex Leverington wrote:
> I mean really, they ARE user groups. Why are they called projects?

> It seems this entire naming debacle has maybe been a limit of the 
> website having to call everything 'project' or 'community'. 

Bingo.

The root cause is a lack of any other grouping mechanism under the
sponsoring CG, which was created out of "user groups CG" + "advocacy
CG" + "marketing CG".

The only tool we have is a hammer, so everything looks like nails.

Part of *this* effort is to figure out a better way of organizing
these things.

   -John



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