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

[Bill Erickson]

On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:23:59 -0400, Karen G. Schneider  
<kgs at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> 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.

You have my vote to retire open-ils.

-b

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