[freegeek-startup] startup or intergalactic

[Kent Tenney]

On 4/6/07, vagrant at freegeek.org <vagrant at freegeek.org> wrote:
> so, we had a discussion in an IRC meeting the other day for the
> franchise group which evolved into ... should we rename "startup" to
> "intergalactic"?
>
> why, you ask?
>
> well, the name "startup" is kind of limited in scope, really. it focuses
> on the early stages of the organization, rather than continued
> communication between freegeeks. added to that, there is also the
> "franchise" list, which reviews applications for new freegeeks (and
> trademark issues?), which needs to be somewhat private.
>
> i'd like all discussion that could possibly be useful to other freegeeks
> and freegeek-like organizations to be made public... soooo
>
> there's a few different approaches that could be taken, some ideas
> discussed at the meeting:
>
> * start a new list for intergalactic, and keep the startup list too
>
> the danger here is mailing list propegation, making it harder to know
> where the appropriate place to post something is (this is the issue
> that prompted the discussion, actually).
>
>
> * explicitly re-purpose the startup list to include the broader scope of
> intergalactic in it's description
>
> this has the advantage of not really having to change much of anything,
> the disadvantage being that



>the name "startup" is slightly misleading
I must admit, the name "intergalactic" doesn't mean much to me,
it sounds like a reference to an inside joke that I'm not privy to.

If a new list is required to discuss ongoing issues (I don't think it is)
I would vot for a name which is more descriptive of the purpose of
the list than "intergalactic"

> if
> it's also largely about continued communication between freegeeks.
>
>
> * start a new, separate list for intergalactic, and make the the startup
> list archive-only (i.e. no new posts)
>
> this starts us off with a clean slate, at risk of possibly loosing
> someone in the shuffle. we might have to update a fair amount of
> documentation in the wiki as well.
>
>
> so, members of the startup list, where should we go with this?
>
> live well,
>   vagrant
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