[Live-demo] Name inconsisetnecies

Vicky Vergara vicky at georepublic.de
Mon Nov 6 16:20:59 PST 2017


I just merged the changes to develop also.

Regards
Vicky

On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben at transient.nz> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>
>>>>> --
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>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
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>>>>> 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]
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
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>>>> Vicky Vergara
>>>> Operations Research
>>>>
>>>> eMail: vicky at georepublic.de [4]
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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> Director
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