From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=GRDKh52X3jZRiDt0l9U1Lp5SiEYJvQeV4wuCNzAL0blusnqYgoTFm64fDJ0s5bcibQ7ZYHWgGJ90ii2J29I262luOJa9La1A90CYhWlcn0BCwHu3/QgpROZQbGAMpvDRk4NH6ankYPcdOdllNc/ZsajSTdq39eZo9SnclcdvCbQ= Message-ID: <465219DA.2040509@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 23:14:50 +0100 From: Till Kamppeter MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <07616E99-C1A3-4F6D-AD07-E6811D16FE16@dankohn.com> <464DC548.5080803@gmail.com> <46523CAE.5000706@Sun.COM> In-Reply-To: <46523CAE.5000706@Sun.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Printing-architecture] LinuxPrinting.com naming List-Id: Printing architecture under linux List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Norm Jacobs Cc: printing-architecture@lists.freestandards.org, Amanda McPherson 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, >> >> 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 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 >>>> COO, The Linux Foundation >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > >