[Brug-admin] Domain name

[Peter Vanbroekhoven]

Hi all,

Peter and I are converging on a consensus concerning the domain names
and how we will use them, and we wanted to run this by you all to see
what you think.

Currently we will focus on rubyist.be. The word "rubyist" is part of the
Ruby culture, and once Ruby/Rails programmers get this, the name rubyist
(usually) appeals to them. On the other hand, from a marketing point of
view, rubybelgium.be makes more sense. People who are not involved in
the Ruby community (newbies, managers, ...) will have a hard time
"getting" and remembering rubyist.be. The main cause of our long
discussion is probably this dichotomy, but that is good because now we
realize that this dichotomy is there.

Hence, the idea is to start out building the rubyist.be website and have
rubybelgium.be redirect there. Once we start with things like donations,
advertising, and organizing big events with a lot of money involved, it
would be wise to formalize the organization in the sense of a VZW/ASBL.
This has the added advantage that gifts can be made tax-deductible. This
organization would be called "Ruby Belgium", would have rubybelgium.be
as a home, would own the money and the domain names, and would be the
name behind the bigger events like conferences. So basically, rubyist.be
would be the geek side and rubybelgium.be would be the official side:
two faces of the same coin. Of course, we are running ahead of ourselves
here, but it's a good idea to have a clear vision of where we want to be
heading.

This is something both Peter and I support, but we need to know what you
guys think about this.

Regards,
Peter Vanbroekhoven
XaoP