(This issue was split from #1314124: [META] Improve installation profile listing on Drupal.org)

The Sector vocabulary already exists for classifying organizations in the new marketplace and for the upcoming case studies (original issue: #371966: Clean up organization-related taxonomy terms)

Part A: Should we try to reuse if for classifying distributions? We need to determine just how many distribution terms will overlap with the organization/case study terms.

Here's the existing terms:
http://www.diigo.com/item/image/22356/xi2j

Part B of this is, regardless of whether we decide to reuse the Sector vocab, we'll need to create a list of terms to classify distributions. Terms already proposed (with a * to indicate they're already in Sector...or their synonym!):

- Academics *
- Civic / Government *
- Development
- E-Commerce *
- High Performance
- NGO *
- Non-Profits *
- Online Collaboration * (well, there's a Social Networking term)
- Promotion
- Usability

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juan_g commented

There are some provisional categories in the handbook page Additional distribution documentation. However, they are used more to describe in one word rather than to group distributions, and could be maybe merged, etc., in an official listing.

For example, the three main social, intranet, and community distributions are together in Comparison of social and community distributions; the event category can also be in this community group. Conservation, fundraising, ministry, and nonprofit are also a related group. Other groups could be: academic and e-learning; business and job; developer, hosting and performance; electoral and government; magazine and aggregation; media and video.

The 23 categories/descriptions currently used there for 30 distributions are:

  1. Academic (2)
  2. Aggregation
  3. Blog
  4. Business
  5. Community
  6. Conservation
  7. Developer
  8. e-Learning
  9. Electoral
  10. Event
  11. Fundraising
  12. Generic (4)
  13. Government
  14. Hosting (2)
  15. Intranet
  16. Job
  17. Magazine (3)
  18. Media
  19. Ministry
  20. Nonprofit
  21. Performance
  22. Social
  23. Video

Of course, there are more distributions and not all fit in that list. For example, sun's new project Portfolio for personal web sites would go in another category like Personal, or similar (different from blog but related).

If we add personal, and group different but related categories, an initial list could be for example:

  1. Academic, e-Learning (3)
  2. Business, job (2)
  3. Community, event, intranet, social (4)
  4. Developer, hosting, performance (4)
  5. Electoral, government (2)
  6. Generic (4)
  7. Magazine, aggregation (4)
  8. Media, video (2)
  9. Nonprofit, conservation, fundraising, ministry (4)
  10. Personal, blog

Or maybe a middle point between detailed and grouped categories, or a hierarchy (tree).

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juan_g commented

Possible correspondences between categories in the current listing of distributions, and terms in the Sectors vocabulary:

  1. Academic, e-Learning (3) -> Education, Higher education
  2. Business, job (2) -> Corporate, Enterprise, Small business
  3. Community, event, intranet, social (4) -> Community, Social Networking
  4. Developer, hosting, performance (4)
  5. Electoral, government (2) -> Government, Political, Public Sector
  6. Generic (4)
  7. Magazine, aggregation (4) -> Journalism, Publishing
  8. Media, video (2) -> Media
  9. Nonprofit, conservation, fundraising, ministry (4) -> Environmental, Non-Governmental Organizations, Non-profit, Religious organizations, Social Advocacy
  10. Personal, blog -> Blogging

A good number of distribution categories -or related- are already included in Sectors, and some not. For example, the generic (Acquia Drupal), hosting (Aegir) and performance (Pressflow) distributions are intended for general site building, but there are not yet Sectors terms for webmasters, web, internet or similar. Other not represented categories are job and personal.

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juan_g commented
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There is new content strategy work happening and I'm going to close this issue because the most recent comment was 3 years ago. Check out the post about the progress so far: https://www.drupal.org/news/content-strategy-update-february-2015.

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