On Tuesday 26 May 2009 23:03:26 Colin Davis wrote: > Not for nothing, but I don't really think that Freetalk needs a public > name anyway. > Users Don't look at Freenet as a platform... We might get there someday, > but everything I've seen in the irc channel, the support list, and > talking with friends indicates that people look at Freenet as a program - > Advanced users think of it as a protocol, which is under development and > only used by Freenet, it's main program. > > No one I've ever talked to has thought of it as a platform for > applications to be developed on. > > This means that Freetalk isn't it's own independent entity, that runs on > top of Freenet.. FreeTalk would be "Posting a message on Freenet" > > > FreeMail is "Sending a personal message over Freenet" > FreeTalk is "Posting to a Freenet Forum" > Fproxy loaded pages are "Websites on Freenet" > etc, etc. > > I think this is the right behavior to encourage, because it helps make > Freenet understandable.
In which case we simply have a menu item called "Forums", or something similar. > > -CPD > > > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Matthew Toseland < > > toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > >> On Tuesday 26 May 2009 16:42:55 3BUIb3S50i 3BUIb3S50i wrote: > >> > djk at isFiaD04zgAgnrEC5XJt1i4IE7AkNPqhBG5bONi6Yks wrote : > >> > > http://www.gnu.org/software/freetalk/ > >> > >> Every reasonably interesting name is already in use. :| > >> > >> Suggestions for renaming Freetalk are welcome as far as I am concerned. > >> > > > > We should stick with "Freetalk" unless someone comes up with a clearly > > better name that isn't taken. > > > > The "freetalk" software you mention is not high-profile, and I think we > > are > > placing an excessive restriction on ourselves if we must find an > > absolutely > > unique name - we'll end up having to call it something like > > "f745jhgf!!&p". > > > > Ian. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/tech/attachments/20090526/4ae307b3/attachment.pgp>
