Suggestion to change "network" to "implementation"

daniel tygel dtygel at eita.org.br
Fri Jun 27 11:45:27 BRT 2014


I'm ok with either "site" or "instance". Another option would be 
"installation"?

Thanks,

     daniel

Em 27-06-2014 11:03, Antonio Terceiro escreveu:
> 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.
>
>
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