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

Wed Jun 22 12:52:19 BST 2011

On 22 June 2011 12:50, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> Agree with reasoning. Could we grab the domain anyway though? ;-)

No. In fact the decision is taken for us since opendatasets.* and
opendatahub.* are all already taken (though unused -- as is the case
with so many domains today!).

Rufus

> 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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