Forking the avahi project to an organization named "avahi"

[tillkamppeter]

@avahi,
I am Till Kamppeter, leader of the OpenPrinting project, a work group of the Linux Foundation, so I am a principal architect of the printing stack of Linux and similar Posix-style operating systems. I am also taking care that standards of the printer industry (mainly from the PWG get implemented in this class of operating systems. I am also maintainer of the Ubuntu packages for printing and many of them are identical with Debian.
The newest development in the printing architecture is driverless IPP printing. Here a network printer advertises itself using DNS-SD (aka mDNS, Bonjour) and the operating system of a client machine picks up these broadcasts. In case of Linux this is done by Avahi, the first free software implementation of DNS-SD (Apple's Bonjour was still closed-source when Avahi was started). Here sometimes I run into problems with Avahi, for example that it does not support advertising services on localhost on the local machine (needed for printer emulations, like for IPP-over-USB) and need to modify it, ask for new features, or report bugs.
Unfortunately, the current upstream maintainer has nearly no time to work on his project and so my inquiries do not get incorporated. Also people from Red Hat are complaining that Avahi is practically unmaintained.
So my plans are forking the Avahi project to get a version where patches of the various distribution packages get merged in and bugs get fixed more quickly. The distributions would then package Avahi from this fork.
I would like to have this under an organization named "avahi" on GitHub which would put it under the URL

https://github.com/avahi

Unfortunately, this does not work, due to your user name, @avahi. As you are not actually using GitHub, you only cloned a repo without working on it and approved some pull request in another ones repo years ago, I would kindly ask you whether you could perhaps change your user name or give up your GitHub account to free the "avahi" name for the Avahi project.
@avahi, I appreciate very much if you could cooperate.

Till