Hi folks,
Just wanted to mention that the absolute craziest is the naming around
MediaWiki, Wikipedia, WikiMedia, WikiBooks, Wikiversity, WikiSource,
WikiMedia Commons, WikiTravel, blarg! I understand the need to
differentiate, but all these projects have extremely similar concepts and
the difference between the naming of source, foundation, and product is
charmingly difficult to deal with branding-wise.
Perhaps just identi.ca and identi.ca source (trac.identi.ca) as the two
brand names (and ultimately the Identica Foundation, no doubt) ;-)
Cheers,
Jeff
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Axel Beckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 04:48:50PM -0400, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> > I've been thinking about the names "Identi.ca" and "Laconi.ca", and I'd
> > like to merge them together.
>
> Although this is sad news for those who know what the difference is
> and who take this difference for granted, I'm sure, you're not the
> only one regarding this:
>
> > I'm spending a lot of time trying to explain the difference, and when it
> > comes down to it, there is no difference.
> >
> > So, here's what I'd like to do:
> >
> > * Rename "Laconica" to "Identi.ca".
>
> Yeah, identi.ca is by far the better known brand. I think it will make
> life easier for all trying to spread the word of "the free twitter".
> ("Oh, a free twitter!" is what I just heard recently from an FSFE
> member with Twitter account. :-)
>
> On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 10:45:49PM +0100, Ciaran Gultnieks wrote:
> > Sounds like a good plan, and it seems to work for Wordpress.
>
> Well, wordpress makes a difference in .com (service) and .org
> (software) here. Identi.ca won't. Although, I think I see something
> where you could make a small but not complicated difference: While
> "Identica" is the software, "identi.ca" (with dot and perhaps no
> capital "i") is the popular instance.
>
> There are other projects with similar issues:
>
> + Sourceforge: Don't know if they make a difference between
> sourceforge.net (their instance) and SourceForge (the software).
>
> + GNU Savannah did a rename because of distinguishing problems, but in
> the other direction: Initially instance and software where called
> Savannah and they renamed the software to Savane "to distinguish the
> software itself from the websites, such as the GNU Project's
> Savannah, that use the software."[1]
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Savannah#Savane
>
> + Slashdot: Their software is called "Slash" which is an acronym
> (maybe also backronym :-) for "Slashdot-Like Automatic Storytelling
> Homepage", hosted at slashcode.com. Most sites running Slash don't
> say "we're running Slash(code)" but we're running the same software
> as Slashdot. At least I do. :-)
>
> Regards, Axel
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> Axel Beckert - [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://noone.org/abe/
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