# Creation of new forum groups (for e.g. chapters or teams)

**URL:** <https://tzm.one/t/creation-of-new-forum-groups-for-e-g-chapters-or-teams/349>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** discourse, docs\
**Created:** [February 16, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://tzm.one/t/creation-of-new-forum-groups-for-e-g-chapters-or-teams/349 "2021-02-16T14:05:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kees](https://tzm.one/user_avatar/tzm.one/kees/32/8442_2.png) [@Kees](https://tzm.one/u/Kees)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 2:05pm UTC](https://tzm.one/t/creation-of-new-forum-groups-for-e-g-chapters-or-teams/349/1 "2021-02-16T14:05:22Z")

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Here on this forum we can use group names to notify or contact chapters, teams, etc. If e.g. your chapter or team doesn’t have a group yet then you can request one in this thread.

The following details are needed to request a new group:

- What is the group description?
  - Mention details like if this is a chapter (local, regional or national group of people), meta chapter (inter-chapter group based on e.g. a common language like hispanic) or a team (inter-chapter special interest group that covers a certain skill or subject, like IT or multimedia), . We will use the following convention for e.g. a chapter: `chapter_amsterdam` for a chapter in the city Amsterdam.
  - If the requests concerns a chapter, project or team, you will also get a forum tag assigned such as #nl for [@chapter\_netherlands](https://tzm.one/groups/chapter_netherlands). These tags may be used to group posts by locality. This will assist with maintaining an overview and also configure notifications for activities in a geographical area. The tags use the [ISO 3166-1 alpha-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2#Officially_assigned_code_elements) country codes.
  - Provide a URL to a forum post, website or social media page where people can learn more about your group.

- Do the members share a common domain? E.g. people that sign-up on this forum with the [zeitgeistbeweging.nl](http://zeitgeistbeweging.nl) domain are automatically added to the group [@chapter\_netherlands](https://tzm.one/groups/chapter_netherlands). We can set this up for you as well.
- Do you want this group to be public?
- Do you want people to be able to tag your group? When this happens all members of the group are notified.
- Do you want anyone able to join this group without confirmation?
  - If not, who needs to be the owner of the group that will be responsible for managing it?

All existing groups are listed [here](https://tzm.one/groups) and the tags [here](https://tzm.one/tags).