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On 08/21/2018 01:33 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> The Infra team has been brainstorming and collecting feedback in
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/infra-services-naming as to what
> actual name/domain the Winterscale effort will use. If you've not
> been following along, the earlier discussions can be found in the
> following mailing list threads:
> 
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2018-May/005957.html
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-infra/2018-July/006010.html
> 
> So far the "short list" at the bottom of the pad seems to contain
> only one entry: OpenDev.
> 
> The OpenStack Foundation has offered to let us take control of
> opendev.org for this purpose if we would like. They have it mainly
> as a defensive registration to protect the OpenDev Conference brand,
> but use a separate opendevconf.org domain for that at present. The
> opendev.org domain is just sitting parked on the same nameservers as
> openstack.org right now, not in use for anything. The brand itself
> has a positive connotation in the community so far, and the OpenDev
> Conferences share a lot of similar goals (bringing communities of
> people together to collaborate openly on design and development
> activities) so this even provides some useful synergy around the
> name and possible promotional tie-ins with the events if we like.
> 
> I know lots of us are eager to move forward on the rebranding, so I
> wanted to wake this discussion back up and try to see if we can
> drive it to a conclusion. As we continue to take on hosting for
> additional large projects, having somewhere for them to send the
> contributors and users in their community which has a distinct
> identity unclouded by OpenStack itself will help make our services
> much more welcoming. If you don't particularly like the OpenDev idea
> or have alternatives you think might achieve greater consensus
> within our team and present a better image to our extended
> community, present and future, please update the above mentioned pad
> or follow up to this mailing list thread. Thanks!

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