# Discourse site title

**URL:** <https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-site-title/17>\
**Category:** Forum feedback\
**Created:** [April 7, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-site-title/17 "2017-04-07T11:08:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![grahamperrin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/grahamperrin/32/62_2.png) [@grahamperrin](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/grahamperrin)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2017, 11:08am UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-site-title/17/1 "2017-04-07T11:08:56Z")

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Initially:

_open source design_

– lowercase;

## Considerations

## Page titles

Expect the site title to appear at the tail of the title of the page. With categorisation, if categorised. So for example, the page for this topic will be titled:

- Discourse site title – Staff – open source design

### Possible change of name

Be aware of name-related comments at and around logo-related [https://github.com/opensourcedesign/organization/issues/68#issuecomment-292073030](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/organization/issues/68#issuecomment-292073030)

### Case

Whilst _Open Source Design_ may reinforce brand and identity, there’s this:

[https://github.com/opensourcedesign/organization/issues/73](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/organization/issues/73)

My gut feeling:

_… – … – open source design_

– without uppercase – has a more generic, broad-ranging feel to it and may subtly go towards making the Discourse site feel more inclusive, long term.

## Logo

Last but not least, re: [https://github.com/opensourcedesign/organization/issues/68#issuecomment-291985097](https://github.com/opensourcedesign/organization/issues/68#issuecomment-291985097) and [https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/admin/site\_settings/category/required](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/admin/site_settings/category/required) there will in due course be a logo, so – with or without initial caps at the tail of the title of each page – participants should not lose sight of the ‘umbrella’ brand/identity.

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Much of what’s above will be better discussed in the public lounge. For now I wanted to share just a brief note of _part_ of my rationale for not rushing to use initial caps for the three words.

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**Author:** ![jan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jan/32/8_2.png) [@jan](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-site-title/17/2 "2017-04-13T13:59:35Z")

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I’m going to be very clear now: There is no need to make a big discussion out of everything. The title everywhere on our website and elsewhere is »Open Source Design«. It should be the same here.

We are all volunteers, and this is not a discussion which warrants all our collective time, it’s just something that has to be done.

cc @bnvk @evalica @simonv3 @belenbarrospena@erlend_sh

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**Author:** ![grahamperrin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/grahamperrin/32/62_2.png) [@grahamperrin](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/grahamperrin)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-site-title/17/3 "2017-04-13T14:00:44Z")

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Please stop rushing. Please refresh your browser.

> [@jan](#):
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> The title everywhere on our website and elsewhere is »Open Source Design«. It should be the same here.

It already is. The change was made some time ago.

Here’s the post upon which I acted:

> [@Bootstrapping the Open Source Design Discourse community - TODO list](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/bootstrapping-the-open-source-design-discourse-community-todo-list/24/18):
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> … change the title of the site from »open source design« to »Discourse – Open Source Design«? …

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**Author:** ![jan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jan/32/8_2.png) [@jan](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-site-title/17/4 "2017-04-13T15:16:19Z")

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> [@grahamperrin](#):
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> For now I wanted to share just a brief note of part of my rationale for not rushing to use initial caps for the three words.

Again, I am not rushing. Just making sure this forum part of Open Source Design follows the community and identity of all the other elements.

If anything should be changed from that norm, that’s a separate discussion we can have in public. Not something to just do in a new thing we set up.

So, thank you for changing it.

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**Author:** ![jan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jan/32/8_2.png) [@jan](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-site-title/17/5 "2017-04-13T15:16:25Z")

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**Author:** ![jan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jan/32/8_2.png) [@jan](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-site-title/17/6 "2017-04-20T22:33:58Z")

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**Author:** ![jan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.opensourcedesign.net/jan/32/8_2.png) [@jan](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2017, 10:34pm UTC](https://discourse.opensourcedesign.net/t/discourse-site-title/17/7 "2017-04-20T22:34:02Z")

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