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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com > > -- http://libgrunt.blogspot.com -- library culture and technology.
