[Open-access] Open Access Initiative - meeting notes, names and moving forwards

Thu Feb 2 19:42:39 UTC 2012

Damn. I was hoping that would be free. How about the domain? I am just on
phone connection so hard to check
On Feb 2, 2012 7:25 PM, "Mike Taylor" <mike at indexdata.com> wrote:

> On 2 February 2012 18:51, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Mark MacGillivray <mark at cottagelabs.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I like Bjoern suggestion and Cameron suggestion, however as pointed out,
> >> both end up adding more words. This could go on forever. all I want is
> >> access. How about going like similar to Peter suggested with
> >>
> >> @ccess
> >>
> >> And the tag line could just be
> >>
> >> For everyone.
> >
> > +1 This has the virtues:
> > * striking and memorable
> > * immediately giving rise to discussion - what does it mean
> > * carrying no baggage and implying novelty
> > * unique in searches (perhaps worth seeing how it behaves). After all
> > "access" is far too general for a search
>
> Yes, it's very good.  It also wins by being obviously not a
> description so much as an invocation.
>
> I just tried to register the account "ccess" on Twitter, so we could
> be @ccess.  Someone's already got it, unfortunately -- though they've
> never used it.  (I hope it's one of you!)
>
> -- Mike.
>
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