# Should renaming come before the website launch?

**URL:** <https://forum.getodk.org/t/should-renaming-come-before-the-website-launch/13192>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [February 24, 2018, 9:42pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/should-renaming-come-before-the-website-launch/13192 "2018-02-24T21:42:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![yanokwa](https://getodk.b-cdn.net/user_avatar/forum.getodk.org/yanokwa/32/1695_2.png) [@yanokwa](https://forum.getodk.org/u/yanokwa)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.getodk.org/t/should-renaming-come-before-the-website-launch/13192/20 "2018-05-21T18:00:50Z")

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I'm going to putting on my PMC chair hat 🎩 to remind about process and try to get to something actionable. Our governance requires [lazy consensus](https://github.com/opendatakit/governance/blob/master/GOVERNANCE.md#lazy-consensus) to make decisions. If a proposal doesn't have strong opposition, that proposal moves forward.

So with that in mind, here's what I'm seeing across the discussion:

- On splitting, there is strong opposition and weak at best support.
- On website launching, there is consensus on the website launching soon.
- On naming confusion, there is consensus that the names are very confusing.
- On sequencing, there is consensus that naming shouldn't block the website.

Here's what I propose:

1. The folks who are concerned about confusion commit to helping clean up the information architecture and language and positioning to minimize the confusion. @tomsmyth are you up for facilitating this effort? And I'm guessing @martijnr, @aurdipas, @Ukang_a_Dickson, @ln, @adammichaelwood will help.

2. We lock in a launch date of whatever is on staging. Close of business on June 15th seems as good of a date as any, but I think the folks from the previous point should have a say on if this works for them. I think the more aggressive the timeline, the better.

3. We start a new public topic to discuss how we go about naming, what process we use to decide on a final name, and a timeline. I think this should start now and that the PMC be public with the deliberations so we aren't forced into a last minute discussion like this one.

How does this proposal sound?

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