Re: Community Teams

[Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se>]

On 12/02/2013 08:50 PM, William Jon McCann wrote:
> 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).

Thanks for reaching out about this, Jon! Much appreciated.
I usually tend to use the word community when talking about groups of 
GNOME users and developers, eg. "there is a local GNOME community in 
Gothenburg that is happy to arrange GUADEC", or "We're going to try and 
meet with the GNOME community in London", or "Christian and others are 
starting a bit of a GNOME Community in SF".
That said, I don't have a problem with the current name either. Clans 
remind me slightly of Quake Clans (from the game), or something that 
Klingons would be organized in, but that is just me.

>  * 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

wiki.gnome.org/[name-of-thing]/Brazil sounds good to me and the map 
would be neat too, provided there is a good way to edit it.
- Andreas