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

[Rufus Pollock]

On 22 June 2011 10:16, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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?

I prefer the neutral 'the' to 'open'. We obviously are focused on open
but for data many datasets aren't yet explicitly open and we've found
it very useful to allow people to add things to ckan.net that aren't
yet explicitly open (but could become so).

Rufus

>> 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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