Re: Community Teams

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 3 December 2013 17:19, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> 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

I don't think that a noun for which one feels the need to link to a
dictionary is common enough, as we have an international community
where not all members are fluent in English :)

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