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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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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