Open Innovation Projects

Hi,

Somebody has accidentally called this project the "Open Innovations Project" (http://p2pfoundation.net/Open_Innovations_Project). I like that name -- you can use it as a stand-alone noun (the "Open Innovations Project") rather can having to add another noun behind (the "Open Innovation Projects" collection/community/whatever).

Maybe the project organizers could reserve the logically resulting domain name (open-innovations-project.org) as alternative/redirect name, or even use that URL/name as the main one? It would make talking about the project easier...

Regards
Christian

Hi Kerstin,

yes, explicitly using the term "open source" would make sense, too (though doing so will annoy the "free software" people ;-) ). However, http://www.opensourceinnovation.org/ and http://open-source-innovation.com/ are already taken, so there is risk of confusion.

Explicitly referring to "open design" would probably fit even better? -> "Open design is the application of open source methods to the creation of physical products, machines and systems", Wikipedia says. Both opendesignprojects.org and opendesigninnovations.org (though the latter strikes me as somewhat redundant) are available for taking, and there are no obvious competitors. (In English-language URLs it's more usual to run words together rather than to use hyphens, hence I wouldn't use hyphens in URLs unless forced to do so.)