Forum Policy/Category Hierarchy

• General
  • A single, general category with no sub-categories; one forum each for English, Spanish, French, Russian, and Portuguese. (writable by all)
  • Announcements (read only, press releases, etc.)
• Technical (writable by participating contributors, readable by all)
  • GVCS Projects (50, top 20 for now)
  • Component Projects (5 or so now, much more later)
  • Community Projects (villages, communities, local OSE chapters, etc)
  • Agriculture Projects (farming, permaculture, etc.)
  • Other Projects
• Organization (writable by participating contributors, readable by all)
  • Resource Development
  • Web Infrastructure
  • Project Management
  • Standards (Docs, CAD, CAM, etc.)
  • Fundraising
  • Project Proposals
• Staff (private to OSE staff)
  • Grant Management
  • Press
  • Marketing
  • Personnel

OSE may create new categories within these high level categories if the need arises.