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Redoing this poll due to a suggestion by @kilroy_was_here ...
What name do you like best for a non-profit #FOSS community for Ham Radio? Think Apache incubator but for Ham plus other open-source services and resources for the community.
FYI I have both the dot com and dot org as well as the hyphenated and non hyphenated versions of the below. Please mention which variant you prefer in comments.
#Ham #HamRadio #Amateur #AmateurRadio #RF #Radio #Foss #Floss #OpenSource #Programming
@freemo @kilroy_was_here In most non-english languages there is no "ham", and therefore no bacon either to be associated with our hobby.
In german, we call us "Funkamateur" (Funk = sparc, comes from the original spark transmitters). It's basically like the english radio, just that the german. "Radio" normally means an FM or DAB+ radio. It's purely a receiver.
And "Amateur" stems from greek (or latin, unsure), it means "lover of".
No pigs to be seen here :-)
Even more bad: for weird reasons the term "bacon" has a bad connotation is muslim countries. They think that a pig is something bad, not to be eaten. I would therefore never name a supposedly international organization with "beacon" in its name. With "ham" I could at least argue that this is just the english word and doesn't have anything to do with pig meat.
Yea thats a good point actually... I'm leaning towards FLEAR s the organization name.. the other two domains might make sense as projects underneath it.
Free and Libre implies a rejection of the Apache and MIT/BSD licenses.
Why start there?
Huh, what do you mean? Apach, MIT, and BSD are all examples of FLOSS licenses
EFLR - Engineers for Free & Libre Radio
Any particular reason? Do you think a non pronouncable acronym works better?
There's nothing "amateur" about people with great technical skill working on a passion project, I've seen some very impressive things in my own field built by hobbyists.
That's my take.
Uhhhhhhhhh, don't know how to tell you this except by posting the Wikipedia article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio
That is the specific thing that this thing would be focused on.
You can use the term "Ham Radio" instead.
Source: literally the first line in the link you provided.
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@freemo @kilroy_was_here
Going HAM