[FM Discuss] groups that are companies, one manual groups etc

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 06:12, adam <adam at xs4all.nl> wrote
>> As to how you group projects on the ibook site, the Zotonic User Documentation would fit well in with other content management systems. Realistically, though, I'm not sure how much cross communication/collaboration one would expect across projects since different CMSs run on different platforms and meet different needs. On the other hand, grouping under functionality would be useful for folks who wish to survey options within a solution area.

While the idea of a company/platform/etc using booki as advertising is
distasteful, I don't think it's the driving excuse to not have
companies as separate groups, and nor do I think that cross
collaboration as the main reason for having type based groups. I think
the driving reason to have groups based around software types rather
than production houses is clutter. I would absolutely know what was
meant by group:CMS, but I've only just found out about Zotonic (as an
example, frantically reading up on it now :) ) and would have no idea
what it meant. If the groups were filled with that type of entry, it
would be hard to navigate. Whereas if I went to group:CMS and then
found Zotonic in there, I would know straight away what it was and I
could investigate further if I felt it was necessary/wanted to
contribute.

There will always be software types that don't fit into the groups
that exist, but I think that is a lesser issue than the clutter of a
thousand groups for a thousand production houses

cheers
L.





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