Get a .com domain and use it for fund-raising and sustainability information. Redirect all .com 404s to the corresponding URL on the .org site.
-- Stephen Wayne Mackintosh wrote: > Hi Valerie -- > > I understand your concerns, particularly with new comers stumbling > across the wikieducator.com domain. That said, its not unusual for > open source projects to have a commercial domain. > > For example, Moodle has http://moodle.org/ and http://moodle.com/ and > > Mozilla run http://www.mozilla.org/ and > http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ for their business side of things. > > In defence of your concerns, I see that curriki.com redirects to > curriki.org and OER is different from Open Source Software. > > How do other folk on the list feel? > > Cheers > Wayne > > > > > > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 14:14 -0800, valerie wrote: >> If I had inadvertently stumbled on wikieducator.com, I wouldn't be >> back. That's a big mixed message - there is a commercial entity >> lurking in the background, so this probably isn't the totally open >> organization that it is trying to promote. >> >> A "real" not-for-profit would have just done the automatic redirect to >> ensure that anyone wanting the non-for-profit wouldn't / couldn't get >> to the wrong place. >> >> >> >> > > > -- --- Stephen Downes ~ Researcher ~ National Research Council Canada http://www.downes.ca ~ [email protected] ** Free Learning --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
