Re: [opensuse-project] Membership part II

On Sun, 2012-02-19 at 01:37 +0100, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012, Kim Leyendecker wrote:

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aybe SUSE will give the @suse.de domains to the project as "short adresses" and keep the @suse.com for the company only. Would be nice

Pardon me, but why would we want this? SUSE is a valued sponsor/partner of the openSUSE Project, but to use @suse.de for openSUSE Project-related stuff sends a misnomer to the public. openSUSE is a community-driven project and the community does not drive (although can influence) SUSE itself. We work *with* SUSE, but not *for* SUSE. Using @suse.de would imply that to the world that we are somehow employed by SUSE, and I haven't seen a paycheck from them yet. :-) If we want some kind of "short domain" there is opensu.se which would be more closely reflective of our community and just 2 characters longer than suse.de. But I also fail to see any need for that. Is "opensuse.org" really that tedious? Bryen

Yes, it is the idea to use @suse.com for employees and have employees use @suse.com rather than country domains.

(Still it's going to take a while to have this fully in place, just check out this list.)

In any case, @suse.com and @suse.de are too close to not cause confusion, especially given historical usage, so I'm afraid this is not realistic. Plus .de is not quite as international as .org.

Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer || SUSE || Director Product Management

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