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

[John Fink]

Another county hard from here then -- as long as we're continuing to refer
to the software as "Evergreen", it's probably best to change domains.

jf

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:23 PM, 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.
>
> (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.)
>
> --
> | Karen G. "No, you cannot call me Pooh Bear" Schneider
> | Community Librarian
> | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts"
> | Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712
> | E-Mail/AIM: kgs at esilibrary.com
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>
>


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