17 Dec
2012
17 Dec
'12
7:24 p.m.
Bianca Gibson wrote:
On 17 December 2012 14:28, Lev Lafayette
<lev(a)levlafayette.com
<mailto:lev@levlafayette.com>> wrote:
Although a name change does *imply* a change of focus of the
organisation,
that it will become "Free, Libre, Open Source" technology
organisation,
rather than a Linux organisation.
It does not imply a change of focus from what we are now (imo). It is
intended to bring our name in line with what we currently do.
More details:
http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2012-April/019454.html
/begin rant
Personally I think changing names of organisations ( commercial and
non-commercial);
to better describe function or simple novelty as often seems the case;
involves a miss-understanding of the function of names !
The function of the name is not essentially to describe the function of
the organisation,
but to uniquely represent the organisation. All that such
badge-engineering does is
obscure identification. Even advertisers recognise the commercial value
of brand recognition !
/end rant
regards Rohan McLeod
18 Dec
18 Dec
9:07 p.m.
New subject: Linux Australia Name Change?
This conversation has been done to death. No one is going to change their
mind at this point, we should just vote.
If anyone is curious please continue through the archives I linked to
rather than restarting the discussion.
On 17 December 2012 19:24, Rohan McLeod <rhn(a)jeack.com.au> wrote:
Bianca Gibson wrote:
On 17 December 2012 14:28, Lev Lafayette
<lev(a)levlafayette.com
<mailto:lev@levlafayette.com>> wrote:
Although a name change does *imply* a change of focus of the
organisation,
that it will become "Free, Libre, Open Source" technology
organisation,
rather than a Linux organisation.
It does not imply a change of focus from what we are now (imo). It is
intended to bring our name in line with what we currently do.
More details:
http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2012-April/019454.html
/begin rant
Personally I think changing names of organisations ( commercial and
non-commercial);
to better describe function or simple novelty as often seems the case;
involves a miss-understanding of the function of names !
The function of the name is not essentially to describe the function of
the organisation,
but to uniquely represent the organisation. All that such
badge-engineering does is
obscure identification. Even advertisers recognise the commercial value
of brand recognition !
/end rant
regards Rohan McLeod
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20 Dec
20 Dec
1:24 p.m.
New subject: Linux Australia Name Change?
On 18/12/12 21:07, Bianca Gibson wrote:
This conversation has been done to death. No one is
going to change
their mind at this point, we should just vote.
As the voting deadline gets closer,
it is fair to anticipate that some
new related posts will come through. Also people join (or re-join LA
mailing list after in-activity for what ever reason) all the time (I am
one of them!), so they get (re)accustomed to the topic. Its true that
going back to the archive may be one way to get oneself informed on this
topic, but honestly this is very teadious and time consuming. So
repeating already discussed issues, is hardly going to cause any wrong -
admittedly can be frustrating to some, - but that's a price to pay if
one subscribes to an open forum like luv-talk.
BTW: the sheer inconvenience of having to search thru the archives to
get a sense of what has been discussed on this issue is in itself a
factor that will determine how I vote!.
Cheers
Daniel.
If anyone is curious please continue through the archives I linked to
rather than restarting the discussion.
On 17 December 2012 19:24, Rohan McLeod <rhn(a)jeack.com.au
<mailto:rhn@jeack.com.au>> wrote:
Bianca Gibson wrote:
On 17 December 2012 14:28, Lev Lafayette
<lev(a)levlafayette.com
<mailto:lev@levlafayette.com>
<mailto:lev@levlafayette.com
<mailto:lev@levlafayette.com>>> wrote:
Although a name change does *imply* a change of focus of the
organisation,
that it will become "Free, Libre, Open Source" technology
organisation,
rather than a Linux organisation.
It does not imply a change of focus from what we are now (imo).
It is
intended to bring our name in line with what we
currently do.
More details:
http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2012-April/019454.html
/begin
rant
Personally I think changing names of organisations ( commercial and
non-commercial);
to better describe function or simple novelty as often seems the case;
involves a miss-understanding of the function of names !
The function of the name is not essentially to describe the
function of
the organisation,
but to uniquely represent the organisation. All that such
badge-engineering does is
obscure identification. Even advertisers recognise the commercial
value
of brand recognition !
/end rant
regards Rohan McLeod
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5:54 p.m.
New subject: Linux Australia Name Change?
Mm, fair enough.
Among those that were on the LA list when this was discussed I really think
it's been discussed to death.
I didn't mean that it would do any harm, just that at this point I think at
least the vast majority of the points have been made, and very few people
that were in the initial discussion will change their mind now.
On 20 December 2012 13:24, Daniel Jitnah <djitnah(a)greenwareit.com.au> wrote:
On 18/12/12 21:07, Bianca Gibson wrote:
This conversation has been done to death. No one is going to change
their mind at this point, we should just vote.
As the voting deadline gets closer, it is fair to anticipate that some new
related posts will come through. Also people join (or re-join LA mailing
list after in-activity for what ever reason) all the time (I am one of
them!), so they get (re)accustomed to the topic. Its true that going back
to the archive may be one way to get oneself informed on this topic, but
honestly this is very teadious and time consuming. So repeating already
discussed issues, is hardly going to cause any wrong - admittedly can be
frustrating to some, - but that's a price to pay if one subscribes to an
open forum like luv-talk.
BTW: the sheer inconvenience of having to search thru the archives to get
a sense of what has been discussed on this issue is in itself a factor that
will determine how I vote!.
Cheers
Daniel.
If anyone is curious please continue through the archives I linked to
rather than restarting the discussion.
On 17 December 2012 19:24, Rohan McLeod <rhn(a)jeack.com.au> wrote:
Bianca Gibson wrote:
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On 17 December 2012 14:28, Lev Lafayette
<lev(a)levlafayette.com
<mailto:lev@levlafayette.com>> wrote:
Although a name change does *imply* a change of focus of the
organisation,
that it will become "Free, Libre, Open Source" technology
organisation,
rather than a Linux organisation.
It does not imply a change of focus from what we are now (imo). It is
intended to bring our name in line with what we currently do.
More details:
http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2012-April/019454.html
/begin rant
Personally I think changing names of organisations ( commercial and
non-commercial);
to better describe function or simple novelty as often seems the case;
involves a miss-understanding of the function of names !
The function of the name is not essentially to describe the function of
the organisation,
but to uniquely represent the organisation. All that such
badge-engineering does is
obscure identification. Even advertisers recognise the commercial value
of brand recognition !
/end rant
regards Rohan McLeod
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