Suggestion to change "network" to "implementation"

[Antonio Terceiro]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 07:03:24AM -0300, Daniel Tygel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>     Aurium is doing a very interesting organization in the FOSWIKI to show
> the existing implementations of Noosfero. Thanks :-)
> 
>     I'd like to suggest that we change the name "Network" to refer to a
> Noosfero implementation. My suggestion is that it could be changed to
> "Implementation" or "NoosferoImplementation".
> 
>     Two arguments:
> 
> 1. "Network" is usually a kind of real organization. So we can not say for
> example that "cirandas is a network of solidarity economy", since it's a
> tool owned by FBES, which is by itself a real network of solidarity economy.
> So this can lead to political confusions.
> 
> 2. We are implementing since some years a new profile type that will be
> available to Noosfero, besides "Person", "Enterprise" and "Community": We
> are finalizing the plugin that will add the profile "Network" or
> "EnterprisesNetwork", so calling an implementation from Noosfero as a
> Network can lead to confusions. For example.

"Implementation" has a very different meaning in the context of software
development.

If "network" is a problem I would suggesting using "site", or even
"instance". "Site" makes a lot of sense to me.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at colivre.coop.br>
Colivre - Cooperativa de Tecnologias Livres
http://www.colivre.coop.br/


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