Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Time for a name change?

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Posted by MaineBob OConnor on

I agree that a name change is a good idea. I also recommend that an old domain and site openacs.org be kept and a script written to do an automatic redirect if possible so that all links to anything old, as might be cached in GOOGLE, will be found, such as this thread:

www.openacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0003Ye

becomes

www.oacs.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=0003Ye

AND

if it really is a 404, then a nice explaination page and redirect to the new site.

As far as a name, I LOVE anything with Oaks in it. My father goes by the name Okie because of our last name O'Connor, I volunteered for the E911 committee in my town so I could rename my Fire Road 47 into "Great Oak Lane". My house is surrounded by some really "great" oaks!

Because oaks.com is taken, I like oacs.com is a good short name. 'Oaks with a "C" ' We may want to add another syllable to it...

I'd also encourage buying the .com .net .org names too just like the ZOPE people did.... especially the .com.

.info could be the documentation site! and .biz could be the commercial big customer site.

-Bob