[Live-demo] Name inconsisetnecies

[Vicky Vergara]

So during our incubation we need to "fix" what can be fixed, about the
names.
I wont open an issue, because we have the "move issues" thing pending
until we have our issues only for ourselves, I will add this as an issue

On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Brian M Hamlin <maplabs at light42.com> wrote:

> Hi Vicky -  you are right, these are not cleaned up.. they were created at
> different times in the history of the project. --
> live-demo   comes from the very early roots, when the OSGeo hackers and
> the Arramagong project joined
>
> Live GIS disk or disc   is a generic name. The wikipedia article on that
> topic shows six other projects like this one.
> OSGeo-Live  has the hyphen, and is this project, but I believe we decided
> that the hyphen is more trouble than it is worth. The hyphen is a written,
> human convention that tries to be good grammer. In the age of Internet, it
> is better to remove the hyphen because not all search and database systems
> carry to along as expected.
> osgeolive   is a primitive, simplistic tag, for the most primitve
> communications systems.. like IRC
>
> the remaining two, OSGeo Live  and  OSGeoLive  are both flawed, but are
> the closest to the real project,
> today.
> --
>
>   moving forward, I believe that this project will split, by decision or
> simply in fact. The Debian repository is not run by OSGeo, and is named
> with Debian conventions. The Ubuntu repository may or may not be run by
> OSGeo, and is a backport of the shipping Live, in practice.
> The new OSGeo web site should link directly to the docs, making the docs
> their own project alone.
> The remaining  "Live Demo" continues, but the form factor, method to try
> and deliver to users, and other
> components are ripe for invention at this time.
>   formal names for each of these things are needed, in my opinion.   best
> regards from Berkeley, California
>     --Brian M Hamlin
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2017 08:29:53 -0600, Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de>
> wrote:
>
>
> I am confused with the name of our project:
>
> OSGeo-Live: is used on the documentation (with a dash) & We applied using
> the dash
>
> OSGeo Live: is used on the logo (no dash, dont know about space)
> OSGeoLive: is used on gogs & GitHub (no dash no space)
> osgeolive: is used on IRC
> demo-live: is used in the mailing lists
> Live GIS disc: is used in the wiki
>
>
> Regards
> Vicky
>
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