Forum OpenACS Q&A: Project name ...

The demise of aD means that many of my concerns about our name
(confusion with aD ACS version numbering, Java vs. Tcl, all that) has
gone away.

This means that a simple change like "OpenACS - the Open Architecture
Community System" is viable, perhaps.

What do people think?  Can we simplify our life and just forget about
naming issues now?

And in case anyone has any doubts, I am saddened to hear that aD is
coming to an end.

• OpenACS = "open ax"
• OpenACS = "open X"
• OACS = "ox"
• OACS = "oaks"
• OACS = "oasis"
• OACSup = "wassup"
• OACSyurprob = "what's your problem?"

I agree in principle with Don's statements about keeping OpenACS (and disheartened at aD's ending and the lay-offs), but I'm not certain of what will become of aD resources. Perhaps one of the new companies may acquire ACS and use it as is?

Also, how will this impact the aduni.org project with it's streaming seminar resources?  Will the contract for the year's serving be fulfilled etc?

But alas, this is probably not the right forum for that type of
speculation.

"We do offer the option of getting all 80 GB of lectures, notes, problem sets, exams and solutions on an actual physical hard drive, if that interests you, for $220 including shipping."

Maybe somebody wants to mirror the content...

I heard that the German aD office is profitable and has around 30 employees. I can't imagine that somebody would want to lay of profitable programmers.

I picked up a copy of the aD Uni courses and I will be putting it online at http://projects.kinetx.com sometime in the near future (we have a 780KB/sec piece of a T1). Anyone have any suggestions on Linux streaming software so people?  Also we are looking at buring individual course on DVD's (about 2 per course) and distributing them at a reasonable cost (cover the cost and a fee to support ADuni efforts).

Of course, this only works if the buying company is really not interested in, and ignores, the Arsdigita brand.

Would it be work to do something like qmail.org does ?  Create a central mirrors site that points to other mirrors sites to it?

At the risk of coming across as being cold-hearted and self-serving ...

Hey, from the sound of things (and I'm VERY far away from the sources), it sound like it's already a done deal.

In many ways this is a good thing for OpenACS, in that another competitor (a high-profile one, at that), looks to be going away. It remains to be seen whether any continuing work would be done on the ACS toolkit. However, based on the rumors, the answer looks to be "no". In that case, there's one fewer actively maintained open source collaboration system. OpenACS is a strong competitor, and it has done well on its own. We'll probably see a pick-up in interest in this project.

Our local cable internet provider is blocking the ports Morpheus uses.  They say it is because of confusion over possible copyright violations, but I heard from a tech it was because 2% of the cable internet subscribers were using 80% of their available bandwidth.

Catchy names do have their drawbacks...we should feature that slogan somewhere on our website, shouldn't we?

Seriously, I don't think anyone really likes the name that much, "ACS" isn't the catchiest thing in the world.  "OACS" pronounced "Oaks" is actually an improvement IMO.

We could remain the "OpenACS" project (since openacs.org is somewhat known these days) with the "OACS 4.2" release ...

Great?  Nope (or do I mean Zope?)  Tolerable?  I don't know, you tell me!

As I said last night (I think it was me, but maybe it was the beer) this whole naming issue's been a bit of a thorn in my side all along.

I'd like to put it to rest now that aD has been put to rest.

So hello Open Architecture Community System users! Sounds like most of us missed a good party last night!

Don't even scare us like that! 😊