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> _______________________________________________ Contrib mailing list -- contrib(a)theopensourceway.org <mailto:contrib@theopensourceway.org> To unsubscribe send an email to contrib-leave(a)theopensourceway.org <mailto:contrib-leave@theopensourceway.org>

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&gt; 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> _______________________________________________ Contrib mailing list -- contrib(a)theopensourceway.org <mailto:contrib@theopensourceway.org> To unsubscribe send an email to contrib-leave(a)theopensourceway.org <mailto:contrib-leave@theopensourceway.org> _______________________________________________ Contrib mailing list -- contrib(a)theopensourceway.org <mailto:contrib@theopensourceway.org> To unsubscribe send an email to contrib-leave(a)theopensourceway.org <mailto:contrib-leave@theopensourceway.org> _______________________________________________ Contrib mailing list -- contrib(a)theopensourceway.org To unsubscribe send an email to contrib-leave(a)theopensourceway.org