Cliff sums up the history nicely. It would have been great to have one organisation for Oceania, but legally that's far too large a headache to be worthwhile, I'm afraid. It's tricky enough having an association that's able to run events all over Australia instead of just in the state it was registered. Hence Ruby Australia instead of Ruby Oceania.
-- Pat On 09/01/2012, at 5:05 PM, Clifford Heath wrote: > In earlier discussion we agreed that RORO, which initially had been coined as > an acronym for Ruby On Rails Oceania, should henceforth be interpreted as > Ruby Or Rails Oceania. > > Further, Oceania was chosen because New Zealand wanted to be included. Not > griping about the name of Ruby Australia, but there was previously a desire > to be > more inclusive. > > For Ruby Australia, I think <city>.ruby.org.au is the most intuitive naming > strategy. > > Clifford Heath. > > On 09/01/2012, at 4:43 PM, Pat Allan wrote: >> Two concerns I have with this - we're a Ruby community, not just a Rails >> community (yes, this group's email address is misnamed - past names were >> more Rails-focused than Ruby-focused). >> >> Also, the association name is Ruby Australia - so not sure if we could even >> claim onrails.org.au (granted, registrars probably don't check these things >> that closely, but I'm not sure). >> >> That said, you're right that it does have a nice pattern to it with the >> subdomains :) >> >> -- >> Pat >> >> On 08/01/2012, at 10:58 PM, K.M. wrote: >> >>> >>> how about 'onrails.org.au' as a base domain? >>> For specific states, we can have: >>> -melbourne.onrails.org.au >>> -sydney.onrails.org.au >>> -perth.onrails.org.au >>> >>> My 2cents... >>> >>> >>> Gordon Yeong :) >>> >>> >>> >>> On Jan 7, 11:34 pm, Ivan Vanderbyl <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> As for the domain, I agree that we should move away from >>>> rubyonrails.com.au to something like sydney.ruby.org.au or >>>> melbourne.ruby.org.au with a similar site structure and link backs to keep >>>> the content, calendar and events localized. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
