[Madlug] new FOSS org coming to Madison

[Abraham Williams]

It might help to break the name into 3 parts. 1) location 2) area of
interest and 3) group definition. Once a large number are listed its just
matter of picking the best combination.

1) location
Madison
608
Badger
Wisconsin
WI

2)
Open
Open Source
Open Technology

3)
User Group
Initiative
Foundation
Project
Group

There are some examples to start with.

Abraham


On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 20:30, Douglas A. Whitfield <douglasawh at gmail.com>wrote:

> So, after attending BarCampMadison2 I have decided to start a new
> cross-platform organization to promote FOSS.  I have not decided upon a name
> yet.  I don't know if a user group is necessarily what I want this to be.
> User groups tend to be for X, by X and I want this org to be more in the
> vein of OSI or FSF (though we're talking about Windows and Mac FOSS here, so
> not FSF really).  I think "MOSI" or Madison Open Source Initiative is not so
> great do to OSI.  We ran into this "problem" with the Carolina Open Source
> Initiative, but we had very specific reasons (namely, CCI) for naming it
> what we did.  There's also the question of whether this should be a Madison
> group or a Wisconsin group.  I'm leaning toward Madison, simply because I
> wouldn't want to travel and I could see being a Wisconsin wide org getting
> out of hand real quick.
>
> So, maybe this should go beyond software too and it should look at open
> standards and open document types.  I'm thinking MOE (Madison Open
> Everything), but "everything" may be too broad.  There are certain things,
> such as passwords, we wouldn't want to be open, of course.  Maybe "Madison
> Open Technology Initiative"?  That makes a better acronym than "Madison Open
> Technology Group."  Maybe "Madison Open Group"?  I'll continue to think
> about the name and I'd really love to hear your comments not only about the
> name, but also about the organization.  Let's keep the comments mostly on
> the list so that people can respond to others' comments.  If you don't want
> to read, just filter to dev null.  :)
>
> So, an interesting piece of news related to this, which might help clear up
> the sort of thing about which I am talking: http://tinyurl.com/6mz37z
>
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