SIGs have communication resources set up for their use.  This document describes how these resources are set up.  To have a SIG's resource set up, create a ticket on Issues in the FOLIO project.

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1. At the homepage, select the hamburger menu at the upper right then "New Category"
   
   
   
2. In the General tab of the New Category pane, put in the SIG name for Category Name and the SIG Slug for Category Slug.  Choose the appropriate parent category (most likely Special Interest Groups) and pick a background color to distinguish this SIG from others on Discuss.

3. In the Settings tab of the New Category pane, check the box to Accept emails from anonymous users with no accounts.  For Custom incoming email address use: [sig-slug]@discuss.folio.org 

4. Select New Category

5. At the homepage, select the hamburger menu at the upper right then "Reorder Categories"

6. The Category just created needs to be sorted alphabetically within the one or two levels of sorting.  Use the arrow keys to move the category up, or type a number in the text box and the checkmark to reorder the categories.  When ready, choose Fix Positions then Save Order.

7. The Category just created will have one pinned topic with the headline "About the ... category".  View that topic, then activate the pencil icon to edit.  Delete all of the text in the box, then put in this structured text:
   email-address - wiki space link - description text.  For example:  i18n@discuss.folio.org - Wiki - The Internationalization SIG... Then Save Edit for this topic.

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1. Within Slack, activate the circle-plus icon next to Channels.  
2. In the Create a channel pane, leave Public selected, use the SIG slug for the Name, and in the Purpose field put an abbreviated form of the SIG description.  Then activate Create Channel. .

Email List

Setting up a mailing list for the list.

1. Contact Michael Winkler (mdw233@cornell.edu) and request the list.
2. Advertise signup to the list at http://ole-lists.openlibraryfoundation.org.