Re: Community Teams

[Marina Zhurakhinskaya <marinaz redhat com>]

I like "user group" because it is self explanatory. I agree with Hashem's concern about "clan". Here are a 
few more ideas:

userfest
neighborhood
crew
collective
block party

Marina

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Jon McCann" <william jon mccann gmail com>
To: engagement-list gnome org
Sent: Monday, December 2, 2013 2:50:54 PM
Subject: Community Teams

Hi, 

In the process of doing some cleanup of our online presence, I noticed that our local community team 
experience isn't very cohesive or inviting. 

We have a bunch of stuff scattered around the wiki with the center of it apparently being 
https://wiki.gnome.org/UserGroups . 

While the term LUG or UG may resonate with some older users it doesn't really seem too inviting to me or some 
of the people I've tried to reach out to (ugh). 

So, I started thinking about what groups of gnomes might be called... 

Something that is a word and not an acronym. 
Something that avoids the tired old patterns. 
Something that is a warm, inviting, and evokes kinship. 

How about being part of a clan? 

I propose that we: 

* Rename https://wiki.gnome.org/UserGroups to https://wiki.gnome.org/Clans 
* Move individual team content under that page (eg. https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeBrasil -> 
https://wiki.gnome.org/Clans/Brasil ) 
* Streamline the presentation of the clans page and add a map 

What do you think? Should we go ahead? 

Thanks, 
Jon 


PS. If you insist on justification by acronym here you go: community [for] local activity and networking :) 


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