[okfn-discuss] Suggestion: OKCentral henceforth be called OKGlobal

[Laura James]

Thanks everyone for your thoughts!

This is just a discussion about the informal name used to distinguish the
UK-incorporated-working-internationally-non-profit bit of Open Knowledge,
as distinct from the whole network of local groups and working groups
(which is Open Knowledge).  We started using 'central' a while back just so
we had a word for it. This name is really only used where we need to be
able to say things like "Open Knowledge Brasil are collaborating with Open
Knowledge International on open data trainings" - because we're all Open
Knowledge :)

>From this thread, it sounds like we should change this informal name from
'central' to 'international' - so that's what we'll use from now on.

Puneet, we dropped the "Foundation" from the public-facing name because
it's lead to confusion (we aren't a foundation with capital behind us),
issues for some local groups where "foundation" has a specific local legal
meaning, and the use of OKF, OKFN, OKNF and even ONKF etc - which is
confusing to folks. We wanted a straightforward clear name which would be
short enough for folks to use it in full - proclaiming who we are and what
we do, helping others understand us and our work.

Laura



On 18 September 2014 22:33, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> Open Knowledge And People International
>
> (suggested by Chuff)
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 6:02 PM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Andrew Stott <andrew.stott at dirdigeng.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> +1 for OK International.  Seems to have the right ring to it.
>>>
>>> Sent from a mobile device: please forgive strange or inappropriate
>>> products of automatic spelling correction .....
>>>
>>> On 18 Sep 2014, at 17:27, Irina Bolychevsky <irina.bolychevsky at okfn.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm +1 on OKInternational and it can be OKI for short :)
>>>
>>
>>
>> a small voice from across the pond: OK International is definitely much
>> better than OK Global|Central.
>>
>> Side note: I most likely came in late to the conversation; what is wrong
>> with just OK Foundation? A bunch of us have just gotten used to saying OKFN
>> (really fast so it flows smoothly off the tongue).
>>
>>
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