Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Time for a name change?

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Posted by Daryl Biberdorf on

I agree with the thought(s) that the name is, in many ways, what you make of it. Red Hat took a name that seems to have little to do with anything and turned it into something synonymous with Linux and open source products.

In the vein of Apache, we could consider doing something with OACS. Oaks and oak are already taken in the .com and .org domains, but oaksweb is available in both. (OACS becomes "oaks", pronounced the same way, is the thinking here.) The genus for an oak tree is Quercus, but the domain name could be a problem. Other possibilities:

  • Rubra - A red oak is Quercus rubra
  • Lyrata - Water white oak is Quercus lyrata
  • Enceno - another name for Coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia