Renaming the org to "internet-of-production"
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Bit of a meta issue for everyone. Are you ok with us renaming this Github org to "iop-org" "internet-of-production" to consolidate the names a bit? https://openknowhow.org redirects to the alliance webpage as well now. @OpenKnowHow/okh-devs @OpenKnowHow/marketinggroup @rwb27 @mwweinberg @dubsnipe @lurnid
I'm for renaming the repo for a broader scope, but as per the discussions to make the vocabulary clear I would propose to call the organization "InternetOfProduction"
It's just so long for a git URL though (which I often do type out by hand) :D What if we add, the full name "Internet of Production Alliance" to the main page? Would that be enough?
As the org name appears on every page of the repo and shortening it is only a convenience for a few devs at most, i would be against that. Is there some shortening service, dns redirection or even bash alias you could use instead?
I am in agreement with @pciavald. When you said "iop-org" my first thought was "When did the Institute of Physics take over!?"
We need to build a brand and a name people recognise, shortening everything to a three letter acronym harms this. Whereas I think you are probably the only person who is writing out the git url by hand
In that case my suggestion is "internet-of-production" because "InternetOfProduction" is hard to read.
Agreed for internet-of-production
internet-of-production I agree!!
Great, I'll wait a few days for anyone to object. Just to satisfy my need for succinctness I added iop.link/git to the URL shortener (we also have iop.link/okh already by the way).
I frequently type git URLs by hand, but I'd take the extra characters in exchange for a more meaningful URL. I'd definitely get confused by iop. +1 for internet-of-production.
Looks like that already exists unfortunately: https://github.com/internet-of-production. So my best suggestion is "iop-alliance" since "InternetOfProduction" could easily be confused with that existing org. I agree "iop" may make physics people double-take but at least "IOP Alliance" is what people actually call our org.
I would agree with that reasoning, but I think that an existing organisation wearing the same name with a similar scope of action may be an issue. That would be worth discussing with Andrew and the rest of the alliance.
It is done.