[okfn-labs] Making it easier for people to figure out what's going on in OKFN

[Laura James]

I hate all abbreviations :)  We've used OKF and OKFN in the past when we
need abbreviations, and more recently we've used "OKF" for the central
organisation, and "OKFN" for the broader network because this has helped us
think about things a bit more clearly.  But they are pretty bad
abbreviations, and we know it's unclear what we mean.

We try to call ourselves the Open Knowledge Foundation [in full].
"Foundation" makes this a lot of syllables but it's the name we've got for
now :)

But for domains - we own okfn.org and it's well known. Likewise, we own
@OKFN on twitter. We don't have other alternatives there at the present
time. Maybe one day we will do ;)  3 letter TLDs & twitter handles are
difficult/costly.

On a not totally unrelated note we are currently working on a better
okfn.org website and one of the things we're improving is the project
portfolio so it will be easier to see what's going on and what's happened
historically. For this list you probably want
http://okfnlabs.org/projects/ mostly
but in some weeks I hope the new okfn.org site will be useful & interesting
too :)

Cheers,

Laura





On 4 February 2014 17:45, David Miller <david at deadpansincerity.com> wrote:

>
> On 4 February 2014 17:40, Friedrich Lindenberg <friedrich at pudo.org> wrote:
>
>>  I think the OKF/OKFN divide was planned at some point but never - to my
>> knowledge - filled with much meaning... OKFN just sounds nicer, I guess.
>>
>
> If you're going to trim to make it a Three Letter Acronym, don't we think
> that "Open" is a bit over-used these days?
> Maybe KFN?
>
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