[svlug] Oh! BTW... (svlug vs. svglug)

Bill Ward bill at wards.net
Wed Jan 23 18:07:39 PST 2008


I'd rather not.  The GNU/Linux vs Linux thing is a political issue and
I think there's enough politics around here already.
Still, domains are pretty cheap and it's probably smart to have the
domain registered.

On Jan 23, 2008 5:59 PM, Paul Reiber <reiber at gmail.com> wrote:
> Question (for someone, not me) is... do we really want to be
> strong-armed into changing our name?
> -pbr
>
>
> On Jan 23, 2008 5:00 PM, Don Marti <dmarti at zgp.org> wrote:
> > begin Lisa quotation of Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:42:02PM -0800:
> >
> > > As part of the last few weeks' governance meetings (held on Thursday
> > > evenings --- ask Mark Weisler for details if you'd like to attend), we
> > > debated many things --- reaching consensus on most--- including the
> > > *possibility* of the organization's name being changed to SVGLUG.  In
> > > anticipation of this possibility, I have procured svglug.org,
> > > svglug.com, and svglug.net, since they were all available.
> >
> > Good move.  At least one of the registrars has been
> > grabbing domains that users search for and don't
> > immediately buy, assuming that enough of them will
> > turn into sales to make it worthwhile.
> >
> > --
> > Don Marti
> > http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
> > dmarti at zgp.org
> >
> >
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