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

[Sharp, Chris]

Karen,

To add my two cents, I agree with Brandon that the Open-ILS "brand"
could continue to be used in certain parts of the development project.
The fact that Evergreen is open source was also a big draw for me
getting involved with all this, and having that word "open" in there
somewhere prominently would keep that association "up front," so to
speak.  As to retiring "open-ils" as the domain - that's probably a good
idea, since Evergreen is now a well-known brand in itself.

Chris Sharp
PINES System Administrator
Georgia Public Library Service
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Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Is it time to begin retiring
open-ils.org?

Karen,
It is a good idea to do the evergreen-ils.org to better represent the
software
being discussed/supported.  However, I think 2 things are also
important:
1. Don't use multiple domains. That'll just get confusing over the long
run.
Redirecting the existing domain is a good idea but use
xxxxxx.evergreen-ils.org
where xxxxxx is "www" or other host names depending on the application.
(www,
test, staging, irc and so on as needed).  That'll maintain brand
recognition. 
2. keep OpenILS somehow related to the name. At least for me one of the
key
"selling" points is that the software is totally open and available.
This should
continue to be part of the brand.  Maybe the name of the software should
be
"Evergreen: an OpenILS".

That's my  2 US Cents worth. 

RobertC

On Thu Aug  7 16:23 , 'Karen G. Schneider' <kgs at esilibrary.com> sent:

>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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>| Community Librarian
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