[Live-demo] Name inconsisetnecies

Ben Caradoc-Davies ben at transient.nz
Mon Nov 6 14:07:49 PST 2017


Pull request to update logo:

Rename osgeo-live to osgeolive and remove space in OSGeoLive logo
https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/pull/339

Kind regards,
Ben.

On 07/11/17 09:48, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> At today's IRC meeting, we voted to use the name "OSGeoLive" (no hyphen 
> or space), with the alternative form "osgeolive" for things such as URLs 
> in which lowercase is used by tradition. See the IRC logs for discussion:
> http://irclogs.geoapt.com/osgeolive/%23osgeolive.2017-11-06.log
> 
> I will update the logo to match this change.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Ben.
> 
> On 05/11/17 00:16, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) wrote:
>> 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
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>>
>>>> Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
>>>> Salzmannstraße 44,
>>>> 81739 München, Germany
>>>>
>>>> Vicky Vergara
>>>> Operations Research
>>>>
>>>> eMail: vicky at georepublic.de
>>>> Web: https://georepublic.info
>>>>
>>>> Tel: 49 (089) 4161 7698-1
>>>> Fax: 49 (089) 4161 7698-9
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> -------------------------
>>>>
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Live-demo mailing list
>>>> Live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
>>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo [1]
>>>> http://live.osgeo.org
>>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc [2]
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Brian M Hamlin
>>>> OSGeo California
>>>> blog.light42.com [3]
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> Georepublic UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
>>> Salzmannstraße 44,
>>> 81739 München, Germany
>>>
>>> Vicky Vergara
>>> Operations Research
>>>
>>> eMail: vicky at georepublic.de [4]
>>> Web: https://georepublic.info
>>>
>>> Tel: +49 (089) 4161 7698-1
>>> Fax: +49 (089) 4161 7698-9
>>>
>>> Commercial register: Amtsgericht München, HRB 181428
>>> CEO: Daniel Kastl
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Links:
>>> ------
>>> [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
>>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
>>> [3] http://blog.light42.com
>>> [4] http://georepublic.de
>>> _______________________________________________
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>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo
>>> http://live.osgeo.org
>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
>>
> 

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Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben at transient.nz>
Director
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