That people should use “EVF” to refer to the umbrella organization and “CEA” to refer to the community building org when talking about things happening after the rebranding is uncontroversial, no? My comment isn’t “go ahead and keep saying CEA when you mean the umbrella org” but instead that (a) what phrasing to use for events before the rebranding isn’t obvious and (b) because rebranding is hard it’s not surprising some people will still call the umbrella organization “CEA”.
Your “Google” examples don’t feel clarifying to me because they’re in the present tense and about things that haven’t recently gone through rebranding, and so avoid both (a) and (b).
The way Owen started his comment, by explicitly talking about the two ’CEA’s, is great, BTW.
I think we mostly agree—but I would claim that if you’re interested in clarity, calling the umbrella organization pre-renaming “CEA” is confusing, and that if you’re not calling it EVF, you should at least disambiguate clearly.
That people should use “EVF” to refer to the umbrella organization and “CEA” to refer to the community building org when talking about things happening after the rebranding is uncontroversial, no? My comment isn’t “go ahead and keep saying CEA when you mean the umbrella org” but instead that (a) what phrasing to use for events before the rebranding isn’t obvious and (b) because rebranding is hard it’s not surprising some people will still call the umbrella organization “CEA”.
Your “Google” examples don’t feel clarifying to me because they’re in the present tense and about things that haven’t recently gone through rebranding, and so avoid both (a) and (b).
The way Owen started his comment, by explicitly talking about the two ’CEA’s, is great, BTW.
I think we mostly agree—but I would claim that if you’re interested in clarity, calling the umbrella organization pre-renaming “CEA” is confusing, and that if you’re not calling it EVF, you should at least disambiguate clearly.