rename Gittip to ... Gratipay! #73
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The name makes me want to 💃 when I say it. |
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+2 from @ericmeltzer @colindean over on gratipay/gratipay.com#2533. |
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"totally neutral" in Chinese (IRC) |
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I'm not crazy about it, but I have nothing against the name. I disagree that it's primary association - gratis - is not ideal. I think it just needs to be approached from the opposite side of the transaction. From Wiki:
That seems like exactly what we're all about to me - the act of practicing a craft and freely giving the result to others out of generosity and compassion, without requiring that the recipient of that work enter into any sort of obligation to you, monetary or otherwise. Flip it around - we're here to help pay people who provide benefit to the world around them, gratis. I also believe that the association that people who are involved in F/OSS have with the words "free", "libre", and "gratis" are not necessarily shared with society at large. I think Gratipay creates strong enough associations to remember later and be distinctive, while aligning well enough with our mission to be built into a strong brand. |
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I am sitting in a mongers meeting this moment, can't think/write much right now. But the off-the-hip reaction is -42. Will think more on the drive back home and chime in if it's not too late. |
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-1 Sounds horrible, perhaps even worse than both versions of saying gittip. Feels forced. If only it were April 1. There were many superior suggestions proposed in gratipay/gratipay.com#138. |
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@tshepang "Feels forced" is not a sufficient veto, sorry. :-) |
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How is this pronounced? Is it like "rot" or "rat"? |
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@lyndsysimon Fair question. How would you pronounce it? |
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@whit537 why not pick from the winners in gratipay/gratipay.com#138. |
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gray tea pay? |
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@tshepang Per gratipay/gratipay.com#138 (comment), the winner over there was We're moving forward with Gratipay unless someone presents a compelling veto. The only thing that would count as a "compelling veto" would be an embarrassing double entendre or cross-cultural association. |
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It's pronounced like "gratitude." |
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Why are you assertive this time around @whit537? Tired of bikesheds? |
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Grætɪpeɪ is how I'd say it http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation On July 1, 2014 4:09:55 PM EDT, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [email protected] wrote:
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@tshepang Yes, I'm assertive this time around because I'm not up for another bikeshed. :-) |
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Here's the sort of thing I have in mind as a compelling veto (from Stripe's naming story):
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I hadn't read Stripe's naming story, that's cool :) Funny thing - there is a "Forge" now... but IIRC they use Balanced for their backend. |
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Hah, forge is showing me an SSL error... to get back on track, I like Eric Meltzer |
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:-) |
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If a "compelling veto" doesn't surface by tomorrow, I'm going to start making a task list. |
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@whit537 you can call a vote, which sounds better than imposing... "you have 24 hours to weigh in". What's the rush BTW? We've had this name for 2 years, and waiting for a few days (or weeks) should not be too much more, right? |
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Regarding the great renaming Issue, |
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I was also curious about that, but apparently fundhub domains aren't On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <
Eric Meltzer |
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I agree on the "what the rush?" question - but I also agree that we need to make a decision. Chad - what would you think about having a slightly longer open comment period, followed by defined decision-making process? Leaving the question open until this Friday sounds reasonable to me. |
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tip.me is available for $10; sounds perfect to me |
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I scanned the name change document and filed the name change request with Facebook. |
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Facebook name change approved! |
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I've updated https://www.openhub.net/p/gratipay and https://www.openhub.net/p/gratipay-widgets -- if I need to do anything to make other people managers, let me know. (Was required to change the name as far as I could tell) |
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Name changed with PayPal! |
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Username changed at Ally! |
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All that's left here is Bountysource and then updating username and email with all other vendors. |
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Sorry for the delay! |
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Looks like Balanced is sorted out. Had to re-add our bank account so I'm waiting for verification to finish on that and then we can check it off the list! |
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Balanced: verified! |
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Ohwowohwowohwowohwowohwowohwow. |
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Yinz ready? :-) |
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Congratulations, everyone! We are now fully renamed to Gratipay! 💃 |
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Announcement: https://twitter.com/Gratipay/status/523102657083629568. |
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epic |
and others
It's time. See gratipay/gratipay.com#138 for our first go-round on renaming, nearly two years ago.
Task List
Internal:
SlackNot going to worry about this one, since it's moribund.Customer Support:
Marketing:
Hosting & Product:
Legal:
Financial:
Afterwards:
Rationale
Gittiphas been a serviceable name for the past two years, but it's not ideal. For most people,Gittipdoesn't have any relevant natural associations; it doesn't suggest anything about our mission. It's hard to spell, hard to pronounce, and hard to remember. For people who know what git and GitHub are the situation is worse, becauseGittipputs us in a box we don't want to be in. We're building a mass-market product, not something for a tech niche. And for pete's sake, my own kids confuse Gittip with GitHub.Benefits of
Gratipay:Gratitude+paystrongly suggests themes directly related to our mission.gratis(as in "free") +pay. We can live with that, right?Gittip(the Levenshtein distance is 4 :-) ).tiptucked in there (assuming we still want to use that word).gratipayin the com, net, org, and co TLDs, as well as on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, GitHub, and Freenode. 🙀Drawbacks of
Gratipay:AmazonandMicrosoftare both doing okay.Patreon, too. :-)gratis+paythat's not totally ideal, but it still kinda fits our mission, and at leastgratitude+payis present as a secondary association.If you have a really compelling reason to veto
Gratipay, please share it ("In {Chinese,Arabic,Russian} that word is a heinous insult!"). Otherwise, let it sink in. We've been building Gittip for two years. Now let's build Gratipay! :DThe text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: