canSAS, Collective Action for Small Angle Scattering, provides a forum for SAS users and providers to come together to discuss common needs and issues, to learn from each others experiences, discuss current best practices, hear about emerging techniques, and importantly to identify areas where the field/state of the art could be improved by bringing together the people that are interested and able to work cooperatively to solve the problem. The workshops and working group activities are self assembled/bootstrap efforts to brings together interested members of the community to build solutions. This portal is one example outcome from these activities.