[CREATE] [LGF] A name !

[ricardo lafuente]

On 05/31/2010 03:07 PM, a.l.e wrote:
> - it may not be easy to get create.org
>
> yes, create is a great name, but we need the domain name attached to it!

Just a side note for the discussion: the domain issue need not be a
dealbreaker when discussing the name of the project. Of course, having
create.org would be fab, but createfoundation dot org, or even
creategraphicsassociation.org (note: exaggeration) doesn't seem that
confusing or hard to type.

As a snarky example, 0100101110101101.org is an artist collective whose
absolutely unmemorizable domain name didn't keep them and their website
from getting popular and famous. Obviously it's good to have a simple and
clear url, but the actual relevance of the project will be a much bigger
driver of pageviews than a 6-letter domain name.

Finally, i did read somewhere that most people seem to look for a site by
googling its name (or even its url! the horror) -- most of the
less-than-geeky people i know do this. So again, it's relevance that
should be the priority for the project and its website in order for it to
be known.

Other than that, +1 to Create Foundation/Association/*. It's a very good
(and catchy) name, with enough identity to be associated with graphics but
vague enough to give some leeway to future broadening of the project's
scope. And it avoids the usual pitfalls of arguments around 'free' vs.
'libre', or 'graphics' vs. 'art' vs. 'design'.

Cheerio,
:r