[Printing-architecture] LinuxPrinting.com naming

[Jim Zemlin]

Till:

Allow me to repeat:

I suggest we focus on the work and not the name right now.      This
can be a topic for discussion at our member meeting in June.    This
isn't worth spending a lot of time discussing right now.

Thanks. ;-)

Jim


On May 21, 2007, at 3:14 PM, Till Kamppeter wrote:

> Dan wants to rename the OpenPrinting project (the whole project,  
> what we
> have done the last 6 years as FSG OpenPrinting and what I have done in
> the last 6 years as linuxprinting.org) from OpenPrinting to
> LinuxPrinting, due to being the Linux Foundation, having the Linux
> Standards Base, ...
>
>     Till
>
> Norm Jacobs wrote:
>>
>> Apparently, I missed the context of Dan Kohn's message.  What  
>> *exacly*
>> is being proposed here?
>>
>>    -Norm
>>
>> Ira McDonald wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> <OP Chair hat on> There is a very strong negative feeling among many
>>> of the OP WG chairs whose companies do NOT ship Linux that we should
>>> keep the name "Open Printing" (which we've always had from the  
>>> outset
>>> six years ago), to indicate that the scope is POSIX (not just  
>>> Linux) for
>>> our APIs and components.
>>>
>>> We can change the name, but it's likely to lose us several working
>>> group chairs and my immediate predecessor as OP Steering
>>> Committee chair, Norm Jacobs (Sun Solaris).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> - Ira
>>>
>>> On 5/18/07, Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, it has the advantages you mentioned, and the part of the  
>>>> project
>>>> most known to users had the name linuxprinting.org.
>>>>
>>>> Disadvantages are that we are renaming a project again after  
>>>> short time
>>>> and this means changing back all texts on the site, distros have to
>>>> rename the packages again, confusing the users, changing names in
>>>> OpenPrinting APIs (or leaving traces of all project names in the  
>>>> APIs
>>>> with the time) ...
>>>>
>>>> So I want to ask the OpenPrinting workgroup members about  
>>>> whether we
>>>> should rename or not. Or whether we should agree on the name on  
>>>> the next
>>>>   OpenPrinting Steering Committee meeting. So anyone of the OP  
>>>> folks,
>>>> WDYT?
>>>>
>>>>     Till
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dan Kohn wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Till, I apologize in advance if you see this request as a  
>>>>> reversal.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyway, Amanda and I both think that the LinuxPrinting name is  
>>>>> much
>>>>> stronger and more compelling than OpenPrinting.  The term  
>>>>> "open" has
>>>>> been overused so much that it is almost meaningless at this  
>>>>> point.  I
>>>>> appreciate that LinuxPrinting provides drivers for BSD,  
>>>>> Solaris, OS X,
>>>>> etc. (and we want it to continue to do so), but just as the Linux
>>>>> Foundation and Linux Standard Base work on an array of issues but
>>>>> have a
>>>>> Linux focus at their core, so does LinuxPrinting.  Would you be  
>>>>> willing
>>>>> to change the branding of your website and working group?
>>>>>
>>>>>            - dan
>>>>> --Dan Kohn <mailto:dan at dankohn.com>
>>>>> COO, The Linux Foundation <http://www.linux-foundation.org>
>>>>> <http://www.dankohn.com/>  <tel:+1-415-233-1000>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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