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

[Brandon W. Uhlman]

That which we call OpenILS by any other name would smell as sweet.
- Shakespeare

The software's great; the name of the list isn't that important to me.  
If we want to call everything Evergreen, then +1 from me too.

~B

Quoting "Karen G. Schneider" <kgs at esilibrary.com>:

> 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
> | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com



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