[Compcomm] Deciding a name

[Michael Roy]

I think it is important that (part of) Jeff's vision
for the near future be reposted here, as it was posted
on page 40 of the name poll:

"Regarding the hosting of web pages, forums, etc.,
none of that was specifically decided ahead of time.
The important theme was that each division could focus
on it's specialty without interfering or taking away
from the success of the other. There are obviously
many conflicting opinions on how we should do this.
Personally I would maintain the existing wiki on
compiz.org with general information about the project
and links to the repos and mailing lists. I would
create a new user oriented site on newname.org which
has user/community oriented features such as blogs and
RSS feeds, and a combined forum would be linked to by
both sites."

One thing that everyone agrees on is that there should
be one set of forums - see "...a combined forum would
be linked to by both sites."  The issue of forum
integration seems to be one of the biggest sticking
points preventing agreement here.  Yet Jeff has said
that he foresees a combined forum.  

My question to Jeff is how exactly is that combined
forum going to work?  Does that mean one single forum
for both sites?  Will each site have its own
(redundant) forum as well, because that would seem
pointless.  Who will implement this plan and when, and
why hasn't that already happened?

My question to RYX and Mike Dransfield is: how does
this sound for a compromise?  One forum, two web
sites?  

If the idea for two web sites is still contentious,
then let's discuss it and try to reach a compromise,
but it looks to me like everyone agrees that there
should be only one forum.


--- RYX <ryx at ryxperience.com> wrote:

> I am still very much against having a deadline of
> five days for coming
> up with good names. It is just ridiculous to spend
> weeks with having
> polls and try to get the actual work done in a few
> days.
> 
> Can at least ONE of you explain to me why we are in
> such a hurry?
> Especially now that the important devs have agreed
> to first release
> packages as "compcomm-*" there should be no need for
> rushing things ...
> 
> I get the feeling that there are very few people
> wanting all this
> anymore. The best way would be to close down
> opencompositing.org and
> move back to compiz.org. This all is such a mess and
> getting worse day
> by day. That's the direct result of letting anyone
> make press releases
> or official statements long before a decision has
> been made.
> 
> Rico
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2007, 20:11 -0400 schrieb
> Jeffrey Laramie:
> > OK, here is my revised proposal for a name
> selection process:
> > 
> > - Create a Nominating Committee of 3-5 members who
> will have the
> > responsibility of compiling the list of the
> qualified names. Onestone has 
> > agreed to serve on this committee. RYX and
> Kristian have expressed interest 
> > in this process and I'd like to invite them to
> serve as well. It would be 
> > good to have some more volunteers who are able to
> keep an open mind.
> > 
> > - The Nominating Committee will accept nominations
> for up to 10 names. The 
> > nominating period will be for 5 days or until 5
> names have been qualified and 
> > endorsed by the Nominating Committee. It will take
> a majority vote of the 
> > Nominating Committee to endorse a name.
> > 
> > - We will start a new thread on this mailing list
> and another on the 
> > opencompositing.org forum for people to propose
> names. Each submitted name 
> > *must* have the following information to be
> considered by the Nominating 
> > Committee:
> >  	- Name
> >  	- Available domain names
> >  	- At least one logo idea. This can be a written
> idea.
> >  	- Perform a web search and list the top 3
> conflicts, if any.
> >  	- A brief description of what the name means and
> why we should use it.
> >  	- A brief description of any known negative
> connotations or meanings.
> > 
> > - Once the Nominating Committee has 5-10 qualified
> names, there will be a poll 
> > of the 10 names which will last 3 days. The winner
> must have *majority* of 
> > all votes to win. If no choice receives a
> majority, then the bottom 6 choices 
> > will be dropped, and we'll conduct another 3 day
> poll. If no choice receives 
> > a majority in the 2nd poll, then the bottom 2
> choices will be dropped and the 
> > last 2 choices will make it to the final 3 day
> poll. If there are less than 10 
> > names nominated, the bottom 50% would be dropped
> in each poll.
> > 
> > - The polling threads will be locked but
> discussion will be allowed on other 
> > threads throughout the process.
> > 
> > If this is acceptable, tomorrow I'll draft an
> official announcement for our 
> > forums and websites so that everyone is included
> in the process.
> > 
> > Jeff
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