usergroup

See also: user group

English

Noun

usergroup (plural usergroups)

1. Alternative form of user group.
   • 1996, Lauge Rasmussen, “Human-centred Methods of Social and Technical Design”, in Karamjit S. Gill, editor, Human Machine Symbiosis: The Foundations of Human-centred Systems Design (Human-centred Systems), Berlin: Springer-Verlag, →ISBN, page 212:

     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.

   • 2000, Mikki Halpin, “Living in a Geek World”, in The Geek Handbook: User Guide and Documentation for the Geek in Your Life, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, section 3 (Your Geek’s Role in the New Economy), subsection 2 (Your Geek’s Responsibilities), page 104:

     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.

   • 2002 summer, “2002 Alt.WoA Show Report”, in Robert Williams, editor, Total Amiga, number 11, Benfleet, Essex: South Essex Amiga Link, page 3, columns 1–2:

     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.

   • 2005, Stoyan Stefanov, Jeremy Rogers, Mike Lothar, Building Online Communities with phpBB 2, Birmingham: Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 146:

     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.

   • 2015, Lynn Ilon, “The cost of not educating”, in The Cost of Not Educating the World’s Poor: The New Economics of Learning, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 224:

     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.

   • 2015 July/August, Dru Lavigne, quoting Lars Engels, “This month in FreeBSD”, in FreeBSD Journal, volume 2, number 4, Boulder, Colo.: FreeBSD Foundation, page 38, column 3:

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