Dell Customer Communication - Confidential

What about #openinfra?

From: Amy Marrich <amy@demarco.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2020 2:55 PM
To: Jeremy Stanley
Cc: foundation@lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [OpenStack Foundation] [all] IRC Channel Renames

[EXTERNAL EMAIL]

Ohh what about opninfra?:)

On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 1:46 PM Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org> wrote:

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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_Internetworking_Forum

> 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
_______________________________________________
Foundation mailing list
Foundation@lists.openstack.org
http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/foundation