On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]> wrote: > Speaking with people about CKAN.net over the last year it has been > clear that the name CKAN / Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network > does a poor job describing what the site does (it's far too geeky and > hard to spell!)
Personally, I always loved the name CKAN. But I was a Perl hacker in another life. Even though I don't use Perl much anymore I remain a huge fan of how the CPAN community worked. I always hoped to see CKAN embrace the (A)rchive function a bit more, by actually starting to archive data, and not just being a directory to where datasets live elsewhere. If there aren't any plans to do that anymore I guess a name change might be important. I agree with Jessy, that it might be best to start with a brief statement of who would be using CKAN, and what they would be doing...before jumping to new names and taglines. Geekily yours, //Ed _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
