[ckan-discuss] Renaming ckan.net to thedatahub.org

[Jonathan Gray]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Seb Bacon <seb.bacon at gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 to renaming it
> +0 to the proposed name as not being quite descriptive enough.  can't
> think of a better one right now though!  (I'd prefer it to include
> Open or Catalog or Library or something)

opendatahub.org?

> On 21 June 2011 22:47, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'd like to suggest renaming ckan.net to thedatahub.org. Reasons:
>>
>> 1. Reduce confusion between software and the site/community. People
>> frequently tell me they get confused on this and at the moment one has
>> to constantly qualify to say something like "CKAN Software" or the
>> "CKAN site". This is made worse by having software at ckan.org and
>> primary community site at ckan.net.
>>
>> 2. CKAN is completely opaque as a name to most people. Talking with
>> people, especially people not that familiar with CKAN and associated
>> ideas, it's clear that CKAN is a poor name (people explicitly say
>> this): a) it's not clear how to spell it b) it's not clear what kind
>> of site it is.
>>
>> NB: this second issue could also be true of the software (which we
>> don't plan to rename). However, having 'odd' names for software isn't
>> such a problem as opaque names for software are common and the target
>> community is much more specialized and comprehending of the background
>> (CPAN, CRAN etc). But it is a problem for the site where we hope
>> general users (or at least data wranglers) will come.
>>
>> Please let me know your +1 / -1 / +0 / -0 ...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rufus
>>
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