User group

Quite independently, the social scientists established three usergroups comprising technical school teachers, industrial designers and industrial draughtsmen. […] During the first six months of the project, 12 all-day meetings were conducted with these three usergroups.

Help your geek to maintain a sense of perspective: Encourage him to frequent the usergroups of his company’s customers to keep in touch with their needs.

The venue had been laid out differently from last year’s show, as before the commercial exhibitors were on the lower level but the usergroups were moved to the first floor above the bar on the intermediate level. A new feature was a series of presentations which were held in the attic above the usergroups. […] Other usergroups represented were ANT (Amiga North Thames) who were publicising the forthcoming WoASE 2002 show which SEAL will be helping to organise.

Usergroups are a way for you to create groups of users, based on some criteria that you find appropriate. You don't have to use usergroups—in the default phpBB installation, no groups exist—but this can be a useful feature.

But what of the rest of the world—those of us with smartphones and internet and educations and Al Jazeera and Google News? Those of us who pass news on at the speed of Facebook and blogs and email and usergroups? We live a different reality each day.

Sending emails to the FreeBSD developers mailing list and contacting local BSD and Linux usergroups is a good start for finding interested people.