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Today's Topics:
1. Re: [all] IRC Channel Renames (Jeremy Stanley)
2. Re: [all] IRC Channel Renames (Amy Marrich)
3. Re: [all] IRC Channel Renames (Kanevsky, Arkady)
4. Re: [all] IRC Channel Renames (Jeremy Stanley)
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 19:38:33 +0000
Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] [all] IRC Channel Renames
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On 2020-12-15 11:21:55 -0800 (-0800), Wes Wilson wrote:
> One logistical item to point out. We have been advised to minimize
> our use of “OIF” to reduce confusion with another organization
> that has a trademark on “OIF”.
Presumably that's this organization:
> While we won’t be able to prevent everyone from using the acronym
> to reference the foundation, much like OSF was used, we have been
> advised to not use it in “attention getting” places.
[...]
Right, so #oif and #oif-* channels seem to be out of the question.
I'm temporarily squatting #infra if folks think that could make a
good (short, not trademarkable) namespace for the foundation
channels.
--
Jeremy Stanley
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 14:54:45 -0600
Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] [all] IRC Channel Renames
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Ohh what about opninfra?:)
> On 2020-12-15 11:21:55 -0800 (-0800), Wes Wilson wrote:
> > One logistical item to point out. We have been advised to minimize
> > our use of “OIF” to reduce confusion with another organization
> > that has a trademark on “OIF”.
>
> Presumably that's this organization:
>
>
> > While we won’t be able to prevent everyone from using the acronym
> > to reference the foundation, much like OSF was used, we have been
> > advised to not use it in “attention getting” places.
> [...]
>
> Right, so #oif and #oif-* channels seem to be out of the question.
> I'm temporarily squatting #infra if folks think that could make a
> good (short, not trademarkable) namespace for the foundation
> channels.
> --
> Jeremy Stanley
> _______________________________________________
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:07:43 +0000
Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] [all] IRC Channel Renames
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What about #openinfra?
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Ohh what about opninfra?:)
On 2020-12-15 11:21:55 -0800 (-0800), Wes Wilson wrote:
> One logistical item to point out. We have been advised to minimize
> our use of "OIF" to reduce confusion with another organization
> that has a trademark on "OIF".
Presumably that's this organization:
> While we won't be able to prevent everyone from using the acronym
> to reference the foundation, much like OSF was used, we have been
> advised to not use it in "attention getting" places.
[...]
Right, so #oif and #oif-* channels seem to be out of the question.
I'm temporarily squatting #infra if folks think that could make a
good (short, not trademarkable) namespace for the foundation
channels.
--
Jeremy Stanley
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 22:11:45 +0000
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On 2020-12-15 22:07:43 +0000 (+0000), Kanevsky, Arkady wrote:
> What about #openinfra?
[...]
Excepted from another of my earlier replies (5 messages upthread),
"the #openinfra channel is already taken by the separate
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Jeremy Stanley
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