On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 00:47 +0000, James Andrew wrote: > Jean Hollis Weber, on 19 Dec 2010: > > > > Firstly, we are doing documentation on OOo, not ODF in general. > > > > We are now, but why limit ourselves for the future? > > Fair enough. Not sure one domain name can cover the whole playing > field though. > > > BTW, you do know that the organisation which owns the OOoAuthors > > domain name, and publishes the printed copies of OOoAuthors' books, is > > named Friends of OpenDocument, Inc.? That name (FoOD for short) was > > chosen because it is more inclusive than Friends of OpenOffice.org, > > which the founders of FoOD considered. > > I didn't know that and with that knowledge it does indeed seem more > consistent to use ODFauthors. However, my picky little head can't > quite deal with the implication that a site called ODFauthors > provides technical documentation about ODF itself. Sounds like a > working group developing the next generation of the ODF.
I don't see why some people think consistency of names between a group and the subject matter it writes about (much less the name of the organisation that owns the server where the group's website it hosted), is such a BFD. Unless one is concerned about potential legal ramifications... or is into magick, where true names have power. Do people see the OOoAuthors name and think "they write docs about OOo; I'll join them"? No, they find the OOo Documentation Project and then learn that the user guides are produced through a site called OOoAuthors. I doubt most people would give it any thought at all even if the site were called something unrelated like "We Do It Brilliantly". So learning that OOo user docs are produced by ODFAuthors would, I suspect, not cause the vast majority of people to think something was strange about the relationship between the two. Or at least no more strange than just having two sites in the first place, which I realise does confuse a lot of people. BTW, the domain name of a website does not in fact need to correspond with the name or subject matter covered by the website itself or the person or group behind it. For example, the domain name of one of my websites is jeanweber.com, but the site's name on the masthead is "Technical Editors' Eyrie" because the subject matter is resources for technical editors. --Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
