Thread: We need a name for the NFP entity that we're changing to: add your vote(s)!
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2012-09-09 , 22:34
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I'm definitely not willing to change all my bookmarks pointing to wiki.maemo.org and talk.maemo.org, and we simply can't change http://repository.maemo.org/extras*

I really don't see why everybody seems eager to change domain name now, it's plain stupid. Only needed if Nokia fails (fouls) badly and doesn't allow community to gain control over maemo.org domain, despite they told they would.

Honestly please take a deep breath and think about it, this is not about inventing something new, this is about sustainable service provided to existing users, with minimal disruption

Since Nokia eventually will stop to provide the hardware infrastructure (read servers), we need a legal entity that can sign contracts with server hosters and with Nokia to own the domain name 'maemo.org' (as well as a few others I guess). Then we simply move existing software/databases/whatelse to the new server hardware and change the DNS record to point to the new IP.
This whole naming debate is about the name of this legal entity called hildon foundation for now, nothing else, nothing beyond. Please re-read topic of this thread!

There are no plans I ever heard of to change maemo.org domain to something leete new we needed to invent now, it's nonsense!

/j
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