diff -r 3a04703a7fe3 -r d3e85f6144cc app/soc/models/group.py
--- a/app/soc/models/group.py	Tue Oct 14 22:57:52 2008 +0000
+++ b/app/soc/models/group.py	Wed Oct 15 13:47:10 2008 +0000
@@ -60,22 +60,23 @@
   #: Group (this relationship is needed to keep track of lifetime group
   #: creation limits, used to prevent spamming, etc.).
   founder = db.ReferenceProperty(reference_class=soc.models.user.User,
-                                 required=True, collection_name="groups")  
-  #: Optional field storing a home page URL of the group.
+                                 required=True, collection_name="groups",
+                                 verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Created by'))
+  #: Required field storing a home page URL of the group.
   home_page = db.LinkProperty(required=True,
       verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Home Page URL'))
   
-  #: Optional email address used as the "public" contact mechanism for
+  #: Required email address used as the "public" contact mechanism for
   #: the Group (as opposed to the founder.id email address which is kept
   #: secret, revealed only to Developers).
   email = db.EmailProperty(required=True,
       verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Email'))  
   
-  #: Optional field storing description of the group.
+  #: Required field storing description of the group.
   description = db.TextProperty(required=True,
       verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Description'))
       
-  #: Optional field containing a group street address.
+  #: Required field containing a group street address.
   #: Group street address can only be lower ASCII, not UTF-8 text, 
   #: because, if supplied, it is used as a shipping address.
   street = db.StringProperty(required=True,
@@ -83,14 +84,14 @@
   street.help_text = ugettext_lazy(
       'street number and name, lower ASCII characters only')
 
-  #: Optional field containing group address city.
+  #: Required field containing group address city.
   #: City can only be lower ASCII, not UTF-8 text, because, if
   #: supplied, it is used as a shipping address.
   city = db.StringProperty(required=True,
       verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('City'))
   city.help_text = ugettext_lazy('lower ASCII characters only')
 
-  #: Optional field containing group address state or province.
+  #: Required field containing group address state or province.
   #: Group state/province can only be lower ASCII, not UTF-8
   #: text, because, if supplied, it is used as a shipping address.
   state = db.StringProperty(required=True,
@@ -99,19 +100,19 @@
       'optional if country/territory does not have states or provinces, '
       'lower ASCII characters only')
 
-  #: Optional field containing address country or territory of the group.
+  #: Required field containing address country or territory of the group.
   country = db.StringProperty(required=True,
       verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Country/Territory'),
       choices=countries.COUNTRIES_AND_TERRITORIES)
 
-  #: Optional field containing address postal code of the group (ZIP code in
+  #: Required field containing address postal code of the group (ZIP code in
   #: the United States). Postal code can only be lower ASCII, not UTF-8 
   #: text, because, if supplied, it is used as a shipping address.
   postalcode = db.StringProperty(required=True,
       verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('ZIP/Postal Code'))
   postalcode.help_text=ugettext_lazy('lower ASCII characters only')
 
-  #: Optional contact phone number that will be, amongst other uses,
+  #: Required contact phone number that will be, amongst other uses,
   #: supplied to shippers along with the shipping address; kept private.
   phone = db.PhoneNumberProperty(required=True,
       verbose_name=ugettext_lazy('Phone Number'))