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

[Michael McAndrew]

Just looked at http://booki.flossmanuals.net/ and CiviCRM looks totally out
of place in it's eponymous group :)

How can I change the group name to CRM :p

or should i just delete the group and start again?





On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Lachlan Musicman <datakid at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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