[website-discuss] Project names in left nav

[Jim Grisanzio]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> Jim went and cleaned up the user group names in the left navigation,
> and the user group list now looks really good.
>
> How do we go about doing something similar for the Community and
> Project lists?
>
> Actually, the community list isn't too bad, it's the project names that could
> stand a little care. I believe we project owners just need to edit our
> project titles - is there just the one title that gets picked up and put into
> the list in the left navigation?
>   

Project owners don`t have access to that title field current site, only 
site admins do. So, an admin would have to go through the list and 
rename/resave all the Projects/Communities. It`s not a big deal, really.

Doing this for the OSUGs was easy because they are all based on the same 
naming convention [(geography] OpenSolaris User Group, but the 
Projects/Communities are not so the inconsistency may make for some 
decision making. However, the only thing necessary is to shorten the 
title enough so it remains descriptive but also fits on one line in the 
nav. Leaders can then use whatever long name they want on the top of 
their Project/Community spaces (in the body of the page, not in the 
title of the page). I think when we create new collectives we should 
have a character count for the title of the collective itself so we keep 
to one line to get started. I will put that in the Collective Life Cycle 
Instructions. But keep in mind that on the new site Leaders have the 
ability to change that title to whatever they want, so there is no 
guarantee that people will keep to text that fits on one line in the 
left nav.

If people want, I can work my way through the list and update the 
titles. Some are obvious and easy, of course, but I would need help 
deciding on many others. Also, people can email us with a new title and 
I can just insert it. And if people hate my change I can just update it. 
Many ways to go. Keep in mind that the /names/ of collectives can not be 
changed. That`s the ending URL. Only the /titles/ can be changed. That`s 
the text at the very top of each collective after the Project or 
Community designation on the current site:

OpenSolaris Project: XXX
OpenSolaris Community: XXX

Jim