Re: Community Teams

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:32 AM, Fabio Duran Verdugo
<fabiognome gmail com> wrote:
> On mar, 2013-12-03 at 12:28 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > As mentioned in the other answers, I don't think that "Clan" is the,
> > right word. It sounds restrictive and closed, rather than welcoming.
> > And
> > it brings memories of people playing Diablo in groups in my teenage
> > years:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_(computer_gaming)
> >
> > Cheers
>
> I don't thing too "clan" is the right word. I like "user group", On
> chile for example for GNOME Chile we are using "user group", It is more
> common to recognize, and fine to me.
> Too, in Chile the word clan as say Bastian is related with computer
> gaming, but too has a bad connotation (is not my impression, I asked
> people in my work), an exaggerated example, but valid "clan steals
> cars".

How about sodality?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodality_%28social_anthropology%29
here is an excerpt (from wikipedia, thanks wikipedia!)

Sodalities are often based on common age or gender, with all-male
sodalities more common than all-female. One aspect of a sodality is
that of a group "representing a certain level of achievement in the
society, much like the stages of an undergraduate's progress through
college [university]" [2].

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sodality

You could also say 'societies'. Which gives it a bit of a party feel.

sri