7:34 p.m.
Quick poll, what is your preference for a short-hand acronym for this
community:
A. OSW (the Open Source Way)
B. TOSW (The Open Source Way)
C. Something else?
My thoughts below ....
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I've been doing "TOSW" for a long time, but the more writing I'm doing
about the project, the more I recognize the value in OSW as being
distinctive and easier to work with grammatically.
What do you think?
Regardless, I still want to get twitter.com/tosw if we can find the
friend in Toronto who has that account from 2009.
Best regards,
- Karsten
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7:45 a.m.
I think anyone outside of the project might benefit from a more descriptive
acronym, as (T)OSW is kind of vague. What if we used just "OpenSourceWay",
slightly longer but more obvious of what it is? Or is it too long to be
practical? Maybe not?
-Tuomas
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 3:35 AM Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Quick poll, what is your preference for a short-hand acronym for
this
community:
A. OSW (the Open Source Way)
B. TOSW (The Open Source Way)
C. Something else?
My thoughts below ....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
I've been doing "TOSW" for a long time, but the more writing I'm doing
about the project, the more I recognize the value in OSW as being
distinctive and easier to work with grammatically.
What do you think?
Regardless, I still want to get twitter.com/tosw if we can find the
friend in Toronto who has that account from 2009.
Best regards,
- Karsten
--
Karsten Wade [he/him/his]| Senior Community Architect | @quaid
Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen
https://community.redhat.com | https://next.redhat.com | https://osci.io
https://theopensourceway.org | https://github.com/theopensourceway/guide
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9:54 a.m.
On 1/28/21 5:45 AM, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
I think anyone outside of the project might benefit from a more
descriptive acronym, as (T)OSW is kind of vague. What if we used just
"OpenSourceWay", slightly longer but more obvious of what it is? Or is
it too long to be practical? Maybe not?
In the cases where the acronym is going to be used, it would be spelled
out first e.g. "the Open Source Way (OSW) community said ..."
Basically, people do this anyway, so the idea is to make our best
choice/recommendation.
- Karsten
-Tuomas
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 3:35 AM Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com
<mailto:kwade@redhat.com>> wrote:
Quick poll, what is your preference for a short-hand acronym for this
community:
A. OSW (the Open Source Way)
B. TOSW (The Open Source Way)
C. Something else?
My thoughts below ....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
I've been doing "TOSW" for a long time, but the more writing I'm
doing
about the project, the more I recognize the value in OSW as being
distinctive and easier to work with grammatically.
What do you think?
Regardless, I still want to get twitter.com/tosw
<http://twitter.com/tosw> if we can find the
friend in Toronto who has that account from 2009.
Best regards,
- Karsten
--
Karsten Wade [he/him/his]| Senior Community Architect | @quaid
Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen
https://community.redhat.com <https://community.redhat.com> |
https://next.redhat.com <https://next.redhat.com> | https://osci.io
<https://osci.io>
https://theopensourceway.org <https://theopensourceway.org> |
https://github.com/theopensourceway/guide
<https://github.com/theopensourceway/guide>
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https://theopensourceway.org | https://github.com/theopensourceway/guide
10:12 a.m.
On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 17:34 -0800, Karsten Wade wrote:
A. OSW (the Open Source Way)
B. TOSW (The Open Source Way)
C. Something else?
I'm partial to [A], because it allows for more flexibility when
referring to the initiative in various ways:
- "I am writing this for the Open Source Way guidebook."
- "I'm joining the Open Source Way community."
- "Let me tell you about the Open Source Way project."
... and so on.
1:17 p.m.
My preference is A (OSW). I think adding "the" in the acronym is awkward...
On Thursday, January 28, 2021, 09:43:42 AM PST, Tuomas Kuosmanen
<tkuosman(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I think anyone outside of the project might benefit from a more descriptive acronym, as
(T)OSW is kind of vague. What if we used just "OpenSourceWay", slightly longer
but more obvious of what it is? Or is it too long to be practical? Maybe not?
-Tuomas
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 3:35 AM Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Quick poll, what is your preference for a short-hand acronym for this
community:
A. OSW (the Open Source Way)
B. TOSW (The Open Source Way)
C. Something else?
My thoughts below ....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
I've been doing "TOSW" for a long time, but the more writing I'm doing
about the project, the more I recognize the value in OSW as being
distinctive and easier to work with grammatically.
What do you think?
Regardless, I still want to get twitter.com/tosw if we can find the
friend in Toronto who has that account from 2009.
Best regards,
- Karsten
--
Karsten Wade [he/him/his]| Senior Community Architect | @quaid
Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen
https://community.redhat.com | https://next.redhat.com | https://osci.io
https://theopensourceway.org | https://github.com/theopensourceway/guide
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5:30 p.m.
On 1/28/21 11:17 AM, Raymond Paik via Contrib wrote:
My preference is A (OSW). I think adding "the" in the
acronym is awkward...
I forget where the habit came from, it may have been from making a
shorthand acronym out of the domain name, i.e., theopensourceway.org is
to tosw.o as redhat.com is to rh.c.
I think since it's really only me that has been doing it and I'm now
quite happy to change for all the reasons others have articulated here,
looks like we may be at consensus?
And hey, I appreciate this spare attenton on the small stuff. I spend
_a_lot_ of time writing about this project, having an acronym is a boon
to me. ;)
Kind regards,
- Karsten
On Thursday, January 28, 2021, 09:43:42 AM PST, Tuomas Kuosmanen
<tkuosman(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I think anyone outside of the project might benefit from a more
descriptive acronym, as (T)OSW is kind of vague. What if we used just
"OpenSourceWay", slightly longer but more obvious of what it is? Or is
it too long to be practical? Maybe not?
-Tuomas
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 3:35 AM Karsten Wade <kwade(a)redhat.com
<mailto:kwade@redhat.com>> wrote:
Quick poll, what is your preference for a short-hand acronym for this
community:
A. OSW (the Open Source Way)
B. TOSW (The Open Source Way)
C. Something else?
My thoughts below ....
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
I've been doing "TOSW" for a long time, but the more writing I'm
doing
about the project, the more I recognize the value in OSW as being
distinctive and easier to work with grammatically.
What do you think?
Regardless, I still want to get twitter.com/tosw
<http://twitter.com/tosw> if we can find the
friend in Toronto who has that account from 2009.
Best regards,
- Karsten
--
Karsten Wade [he/him/his]| Senior Community Architect | @quaid
Red Hat Open Source Program Office (OSPO) : @redhatopen
https://community.redhat.com <https://community.redhat.com> |
https://next.redhat.com <https://next.redhat.com> | https://osci.io
<https://osci.io>
https://theopensourceway.org <https://theopensourceway.org> |
https://github.com/theopensourceway/guide
<https://github.com/theopensourceway/guide>
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