[Live-demo] Name inconsisetnecies

[Astrid Emde (OSGeo)]

Hi Vicky,

thanks for bringing up that topic.

+1 to define the name during incubation

I prefer OSGeo-Live but I am also open for changes.

Astrid

Am 2017-11-03 19:08, schrieb 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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> Salzmannstraße 44,
> 81739 München, Germany
> 
> Vicky Vergara
> Operations Research
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> eMail: vicky at georepublic.de [4]
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