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

Wed Jun 22 12:50:39 BST 2011

Agree with reasoning. Could we grab the domain anyway though? ;-)

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> 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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