[CODE4LIB] Full Legal Names on the Web, was GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)
@Shaun, That is really interesting. I never looked at Github that way. I jumped on the github bandwagon for purely selfish, web-culture reasons and for the purpose of having a code portfolio (even if I'm a little embarrassed by it). This split topic I'd like to see maybe in another thread is about giving full legal names to web services. If anyone watched the PS4 reveal last night, you might have noticed that PS4 is giving up gamertags (read: aliases) for full names to easily integrate with other social platforms. Even though I'm late to the game, for the last year I've been using solely my full name as username (where I can get it) so, frankly, I grab it before any of the other Michael Schofield's can. Sorry for the digression, Michael ns4lib.com, etc. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of MJ Ray Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:35 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry) Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu * Myth #1 : GitHub creates a barrier to entry. That's a fact, not a myth. Myself, I won't give GitHub my full legal name and I suspect there are others who won't. So, we're not welcome there and if we lie to register, all our work would be subject to deletion at an arbitrary future point. There's a couple of other things in the terms which aren't simple, too. [...] * Myth #4 : GitHub is monopolizing open source software development. ... to its unfortunate centralizing of so much free/open source software on one platform.) Convergence is not always a bad thing. GitHub provides a great, free service with lots of helpful collaboration tools beyond version control. It's natural that people would flock there, despite having lots of other options. Whether or not it's a deliberate monopolising attempt, I don't think that's the full reason. It's not only natural effect. There's a sneaky lock-in effect of having one open tool (git hosting) which is fairly easy to move in and out and interoperate with, linked to other closed tools (such as their issues tracker and their non-git pull requests system) which are harder to move out or interoperate. Use github if you like. Just don't expect everyone to do so. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Full Legal Names on the Web, was GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)
Michael Schofield mschofi...@nova.edu [...] This split topic I'd like to see maybe in another thread is about giving full legal names to web services. If anyone watched the PS4 reveal last night, you might have noticed that PS4 is giving up gamertags (read: aliases) for full names to easily integrate with other social platforms. [...] Anyone know how they're going to handle namespace collisions, and the various sexual and racial harrassment that will happen in some games once you can make assumptions about people from their full names? Hopefully, they only need be names and not legal full names. This might amuse some of you: I'm not even the first (or in the first ten) calling themselves MJ Ray on one popular web service - the ones before me are a diverse bunch, too; and I namespace-collided with myself at least twice while I was both staff for different departments and a student at an expanding university - the user database required full names and required them to be unique... oops! I don't think that's the case any longer... ;-) Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Full Legal Names on the Web, was GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)
It took me a minute to find this--remembering it from when it made the rounds a few years ago. Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. It's a useful reality check for anyone who thinks they can find and record someone's real name. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ Perhaps PS4 should consider using VIAF. :) - Tom On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:36 AM, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: Michael Schofield mschofi...@nova.edu [...] This split topic I'd like to see maybe in another thread is about giving full legal names to web services. If anyone watched the PS4 reveal last night, you might have noticed that PS4 is giving up gamertags (read: aliases) for full names to easily integrate with other social platforms. [...] Anyone know how they're going to handle namespace collisions, and the various sexual and racial harrassment that will happen in some games once you can make assumptions about people from their full names? Hopefully, they only need be names and not legal full names. This might amuse some of you: I'm not even the first (or in the first ten) calling themselves MJ Ray on one popular web service - the ones before me are a diverse bunch, too; and I namespace-collided with myself at least twice while I was both staff for different departments and a student at an expanding university - the user database required full names and required them to be unique... oops! I don't think that's the case any longer... ;-) Regards, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/
