[SCC_Active_Members] Re-Naming the SCC

[Tim Shoppa]

"Bernard L. Peuto" <blpeuto at peuto.com> wrote:
> Note that Googling "software preservation" finds many references to these:
> 	The Internet Archive has the Classic Software Preservation Project
> (CLASP).  http://www.archive.org/details/clasp.
> 	Software Preservation Society formerly the Classic Amiga
> Preservation Society is interested in preserving computer games.
> http://www.softpres.org/
> 	At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, there is this
> vestige in a wiki.  http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/Museum/Manifesto

PUPS is the PDP-11 Unix Preservation Society.

Preservation is better than collection. This is not about just gathering
more and more stuff!

> Possible, but unlikely:
> 	society (too fancy)

"Society" isn't bad.

> These would suggest affiliation with the museum:
> 	committee, center, institute

Those are good, especially center and institute.

> Mike and I  like these, which suggest involvement with others:
> 	alliance
>      		Software Preservation Alliance
>      		Alliance for Software Preservation

"Alliance" at least today implies a for-profit consortium. Looking
at a dictionary it implies a group of corporations or organizations.
Both have some negative connotations at the moment.

> 		archive(s), bank, conservatory, depository, depot,
> collection, gallery, library, repository, storehouse, vault, warehouse

The more it implies interactivity and relevance, the better. Archive
does this, gallery a little bit, but most of the others sound too
much like dank and dusty places where things get lost!

Al's suggestion of SIG is not too far off target, but in the perfect
world it would not be a little special corner of CHM, instead
it would be a core part of it.

My suggestion: Institute for the Preservation of Software. IPS.

Tim.