-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Sarah Hobbs wrote: > Also dealt with this one. No one tends to check the name on the GPG key > much, except for signing it. If you have your alias on irc, don't show > real names in mail, and don't have your real name on launchpad, no one > really seems to care, or to know what your real name is. Well said. Exactly what I believe. If one uses a realistic pseudonym on every place, do they really need to put their actual real name when it comes to being on the Launchpad Beta Testers team? This would be ridicoulous. But now the argument between using nicknames and realistic names (real names and pseudonyms) is a much more plausible. On one hand, a nickname should be equivalent to two names (one name instead of two). However, it would be less professional in a business-like environment or to the general public, and Ubuntu is going mainstream. Although many companies in tech support as well as many other organizations do use only a first name for their employees (which may not always be real), this may not be realistically feasible in Ubuntu as too many people would have the same name. However, I suggest moving towards realistic names (real names or pseudonyms, it doesn't matter). It is not the happiest ending solution, but it does answer the questions of privacy while still keeping Ubuntu "professional" (it's all show business). Agree with Kenneth Nielsen and Scott/angrykeyboarder. This dispute has gone farther than it should. Just end this dispute, and accept pseudonyms (they are going to happen anyway, and they satisfy privacy and "professionalism", you don't need to extra-publicize pseudonyms, just accept them the same way writers use them in books). But we need someone in charge or from Canonical to clarify this issue (specifically over pseudonyms) and then we can discuss nicknames. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHwE0qgmu+rEIQLtwRAtBnAJ9LDk9+1yAKrfHwjw15wXelnXd6dwCffvmk r2yIUePMFThbqhY3KinmAbg= =fmMf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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