[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is it time to begin retiring open-ils.org?

[Deanna Frazee]

Yes, it is time to change to something like evergreen-ils.org.  I think
it better indicates what ILS the various lists are discussing.

Deanna Frazee
Killeen City Library System
(254) 501-8995
(254) 501-7704 (fax)
dfrazee at ci.killeen.tx.us
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
[mailto:open-ils-
> general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Karen G.
Schneider
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 3:24 PM
> To: Evergreen Discussion Group
> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is it time to begin retiring open-ils.org?
> 
> When I got involved with Evergreen one of my questions was "What is
> 'open-ils'?" I found out it was an early name for the software code
that
> would become Evergreen.
> 
> I've been asking various people in the Evergreen community for a few
> weeks, "What do you think about the idea of retiring 'open-ils'... for
> example, moving to evergreen-ils.org (and have it also respond
> toevergreenils.org, and redirect from open-ils.org), eventually
renaming
> the lists, IRC channels, etc.?" We reserved both domain names, by the
> way. So far everyone I've talked to likes the idea (or at least agrees
> with it). But that's still a small group of people.
> 
> So now I'm surfacing the question to this list. What do you think? Is
it
> time to have our web address, etc. reflect the name, Evergreen? I know
> my own reasons for preferring the change (my early name was Pooh Bear,
> but nobody except my mother calls me that any more...and you can't
> Google me up that way), but I'm just one voice in the community.
> 
> (Incidentally, open-ils will probably never really "go away"--it's
> embedded in parts of Evergreen's code. So we'd have that nostalgic
> connection.)
> 
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