[Imc-alternatives] NAMES: alternatives/solutions/change

[Josef Davies-Coates]

I like solutions more than alternatives for the reasons Jay mentions below
which echo what strypey says here:
https://we.riseup.net/imc-alt/official-domain-and-title+8890

I prefer Fundamental Change to Change. :)

Josef.


2008/6/3 Jay <jay at fundamentalchange.net>:

> Hi,
>
> The top three choices for our site's name are
> Alternatives.indymedia.org, Solutions.indymedia.org and
> Change.indymedia.org.
>
> I've been going back and forth between liking Alternatives and Solutions.
>
> I like Alternatives because it's a general term to cover all the
> kinds of information we're going to gather on the site --
> alternatives to the current political/economic/social/health etc.
> systems.  Plus, it's comfortable because that's what we've been
> calling ourselves forever.
>
> I'm less than 100% enthusiastic about it because Alternatives begs
> the question, "alternative to what?" which requires
> explanation.  Plus, Alternatives seems to marginalize the information
> and also the people who are participating: do we want our ideas to
> just be marginal outside ideas?  Are we not confident they can one
> day become mainstream?
>
> I like Solutions because that gets at what a lot of us are trying to
> do -- find solutions to the world's problms.
>
> I'm not convinced by the name because calling our site Solutions
> could infer that we're providing a list of things we believe are
> definitive solutions to problems rather than exploring a lot of ideas
> and options.
>
> I don't think I like Change because "change" seems vague and could
> mean so many things.  My e-mail is from a domain I own called
> "FundamentalChange.net" which I think of as being more specific to
> the kind of change I work toward, but FundamentalChange is a real
> mouthful for the name of anything.
>
> So, I'm not sure.
> Jay
>
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