# Defining categories of this forum **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [October 30, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/defining-categories-of-this-forum/13 "2019-10-30T18:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kazik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openrndr.discourse.group/kazik/32/7_2.png) [@kazik](https://openrndr.discourse.group/u/kazik)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/defining-categories-of-this-forum/13/1 "2019-10-30T18:00:51Z")
I guess “Site Feedback” is the “Meta” category where we can discuss the structure of this forum, I am just looking at the Processing Foundation and Open Frameworks forum to check their categories. How about starting with: - `Installation` - OPENRNDR installation seems to be the biggest challenge for beginners - `Coding Questions` - general questions about programming - `Extensions` - or `ORX`, but maybe extensions sounds better as something which would also cover 3rd party libraries? - `Gallery` - links to projects using OPENRNDR - `Announcements` - new releases, extensions, etc. - `Community` - events, workshops, etc. - `Introductions` - where new members can tell more about themselves - `Feature Requests` - `OPENRNDR Development` - just “development” might be confusing And something which would be the most common category, but I don’t want to call it `General`, how about `How To?`, where people are mostly asking how to achieve something with the framework? ---
**Author:** ![edwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/73ab20/32.png) [@edwin](https://openrndr.discourse.group/u/edwin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/defining-categories-of-this-forum/13/2 "2019-10-31T08:32:44Z")
`How to?` sounds OK, or the bit more specific `OPENRNDR questions`. ---
**Author:** ![edwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/73ab20/32.png) [@edwin](https://openrndr.discourse.group/u/edwin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 9:12am UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/defining-categories-of-this-forum/13/3 "2019-10-31T09:12:48Z")
I created an OPENRNDR category and attached child categories in them. Let’s see if that works for us. ---
**Author:** ![ricardo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openrndr.discourse.group/ricardo/32/8_2.png) [@ricardo](https://openrndr.discourse.group/u/ricardo)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/defining-categories-of-this-forum/13/4 "2019-10-31T09:16:19Z")
I suggest having a `Beginners` category, since that has the psychological effect of lessening the pressure when posting beginner questions. Not so sure in the need of having advanced/intermediate, since those can probably go in the other categories. Regarding `Feature Requests` and `OPENRNDR Development` how would that play along with the repo on github? ---
**Author:** ![kazik](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/openrndr.discourse.group/kazik/32/7_2.png) [@kazik](https://openrndr.discourse.group/u/kazik)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 9:40am UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/defining-categories-of-this-forum/13/5 "2019-10-31T09:40:47Z")
I believe that many discussions regarding development of the framework itself will be rather performed on Slack. And I agree that `Feature Requests` and `OPENRNDR Development` overlap with issue tracking system. But still I would like to have something capturing our “dreams”. For example vulkan based rendering. Maybe someone specialized in Vulkan will discover this thread through the search engine and contribute something interesting to the discussion. ---
**Author:** ![edwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/73ab20/32.png) [@edwin](https://openrndr.discourse.group/u/edwin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/defining-categories-of-this-forum/13/6 "2019-10-31T13:22:23Z")
I see Github as the primary place to report issues and to make trivial feature requests. I feel the more demanding feature requests (for which often there isn’t a clear implementation plan) are better placed in a less formal setting (in my eyes Github is pretty formal setting), as there may be existing alternatives, or no need for the feature request at all. ---
**Author:** ![edwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/73ab20/32.png) [@edwin](https://openrndr.discourse.group/u/edwin)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2019, 1:26pm UTC](https://openrndr.discourse.group/t/defining-categories-of-this-forum/13/7 "2019-10-31T13:26:40Z")
@ricardo good one, I created the beginners category