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

[adam]

u did the right thing by posting to the list :) just changed it


adam

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 19:26 +0000, Michael McAndrew wrote:
> 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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