# Is igwn.org a better public-facing domain name than gw-openscience.org?

**URL:** <https://ask.igwn.org/t/is-igwn-org-a-better-public-facing-domain-name-than-gw-openscience-org/17>\
**Category:** Site Feedback\
**Created:** [February 4, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://ask.igwn.org/t/is-igwn-org-a-better-public-facing-domain-name-than-gw-openscience-org/17 "2022-02-04T16:49:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@pfc](https://ask.igwn.org/u/pfc)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 4:49pm UTC](https://ask.igwn.org/t/is-igwn-org-a-better-public-facing-domain-name-than-gw-openscience-org/17/1 "2022-02-04T16:49:12Z")

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If this is an appropriate place to ask both _internal_ IGWN questions in addition to questions from the public, yes. If it’s just for the public, maybe [gw-openscience.org](http://gw-openscience.org) is better?

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**Author:** ![jonah](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/ask.igwn.org/jonah/32/10_2.png) [@jonah](https://ask.igwn.org/u/jonah)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 11:22pm UTC](https://ask.igwn.org/t/is-igwn-org-a-better-public-facing-domain-name-than-gw-openscience-org/17/2 "2022-02-04T23:22:01Z")

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@pfc good question!

My hope is that this will be a forum that can be used by both people inside and outside the LVK. For example, all LVK analysis code is open source. So, if there’s a new LVK graduate student, and she has a question about how to run a gstlal job on the OSG, the answer to that question could be useful to people both inside and outside the collaboration.

Of course, this message board is public, so it is not a good place to post secret details of LVK works-in-progress.

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**Author:** ![jonah](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/ask.igwn.org/jonah/32/10_2.png) [@jonah](https://ask.igwn.org/u/jonah)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 11:31pm UTC](https://ask.igwn.org/t/is-igwn-org-a-better-public-facing-domain-name-than-gw-openscience-org/17/3 "2022-02-04T23:31:55Z")

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To be honest, I think I like “[ask.igwn.org](http://ask.igwn.org)”, because:

1. it is short

2. it potentially has broad scope (e.g. anything GW related)

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**Author:** ![duncanmmacleod](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/ask.igwn.org/duncanmmacleod/32/98_2.png) [@duncanmmacleod](https://ask.igwn.org/u/duncanmmacleod)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2022, 4:16pm UTC](https://ask.igwn.org/t/is-igwn-org-a-better-public-facing-domain-name-than-gw-openscience-org/17/4 "2022-07-01T16:16:51Z")

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> [@jonah](#):
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> all LVK analysis code is open source

I don’t believe this statement is _absolutely_ true, but I would love it to be.