collect instances of brand confusion between GitHub and Gittip

[chadwhitacre]

cf. #138

[chadwhitacre]

The first time I talked to @clone1018 on Skype, he kept saying "GitHub" instead of "Gittip."

[chadwhitacre]

Here's a dude who showed up in #gittip asking for Markdown help: https://botbot.me/freenode/gittip/1792557/

[chadwhitacre]

Honestly, I was never very comfortable with making Gittip rest on top of api.github.com

@sigmavirus24 ref: https://botbot.me/freenode/gittip/1796285/

[imathis]

Was the prefix 'Git' in Gittip an intentional association with Git or GitHub? When I first heard of Gittip I assumed it was aimed at the GitHub audience and It's very hard to distance the two in my mind. Occasionally people assume Octopress is a product of GitHub because of their use of the 'Octo' prefix and I can imagine it has caused unnecessary confusion. Are you considering a name change?

[chadwhitacre]

@imathis The initial idea was a "tip jar for GitHub" but it quickly became much broader, even before I launched it. We tried to change the name early on (#138) but came up short. It's a nuisance but I don't have a good solution right now. It's like Wikipedia and WikiLeaks.

[imathis]

Wow that's quite an issue thread. What is the purpose of this issue then? A collection of misunderstandings to one day inspire you to rename?

[chadwhitacre]

What is the purpose of this issue then? A collection of misunderstandings to one day inspire you to rename?

Something like that. :) I've noticed it often enough from people close to the project, even, that it seemed like it'd be interesting to track.

[chadwhitacre]

I just did this again in IRC but botbot.me isn't in the channel to log right now. :-/

[chadwhitacre]

Pruning as open-ended and unactionable.

[chadwhitacre]

Sam (age 6):

[chadwhitacre]

And, not to be outdone, Ruthie (age 3):