My two cents:  For a new group, the most appropriate name should be chosen.  
For an existing group, name changes are often counterproductive and 
confusing.  For example, the Arizona Software Association went through 
several name changes and is now the Arizona Technology Council.   The 
leadership says it wants to be more inclusive, but in between, it also went 
through the cutesy name "azsoft.net"  I suppose they wanted to be free of the 
stigma of the dot-com crash.  In any case, if this came to a vote, I'd vote 
against changing PLUG's name, but I certainly wouldn't walk out in a huff if 
the name change passed.  As Shakespeare put it, "... a rose by any other name 
would smell as sweet."   
Vaughn Treude

(On the other hand, I changed my company name from Dakota Software to Nakota 
Software  because people were confusing my company with another company in 
some other state.  But that was easy; all I had to do was print new business 
cards.)

On Tuesday 31 December 2002 21:40, you wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 alandd@mindspring.com wrote:
> > ...Linux/GNU/Open Source/Free Software...
>
> If we officially renamed PLUG, oh, something like the "Phoenix GNU/ Linux/
> Free Software User Group" could we still keep "PLUG" as the acronym?
> After all, "RCA," "DVD," and plenty of other acronyms don't offically
> stand for anything anymore.
>
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