Thanks Geir.
It's certainly a viable alternative plan, but we're trying to match
up with
the history and culture we've created in the Jini Community of open
involvement, so it seems like goodness to engage more broadly and
give people a say.
We've had a number of good names submitted -- but I'm guessing the
winner is still out there... so please consider submitting a name.
Thanks.
Many of the names submitted so far have played off the "Jini" name or
space (e.g., the "Eden example below). An alternate direction is to just
propose something different and fun (which might just be a cool name
and not tied at all to the technology).
We'll welcome all ideas through today and then start the vetting
process.
Thanks again -Jim
On Sep 24, 2006, at 7:48 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
While we all appreciate you inviting the community to help, I also
encourage the proposers to consider choosing a name among yourselves.
There's nothing wrong with that, and as it's the project you are
proposing, it's natural that you can choose the name.
geir
Jim Hurley wrote:
Hi all-
I apologize for the gap in communication on our Proposal. Following
my summary post:
<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/
200608.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and list discussion, I believe choosing a new name for the project
and
then updating our Proposal are the last bits before we can ask for an
incubator vote.
We've been fairly consumed by our "Jini Community Meeting" event
last week in Brussels (see the Jini.org front page for links to
info from
the event), so again, I'm sorry for not getting this closed sooner
so we
can move on and (hopefully) get going.
As we're all too familiar with :-o -- picking a name (that
everyone likes)
is hard. In order to get as many creative ideas as possible, and
have a
defined process (so that it doesn't drag out) for making a
decision...
we'd like to:
* Gather Name Ideas -- through Tuesday, Sept 26
Ask both the Apache incubator and Jini Community for name
ideas. In order to not consume the lists with name mail,
if you
could send me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] your name ideas, and
optionally your reasoning/meaning behind the name. I'd really
appreciate it. For example:
name: "Eden" -- reminds me of Barbara Eden from "I
Dream of
Genie"! ;-)
* Choose the New Name (voting) -- Thursday, Sept 28 through
Monday, Oct 2
We'll take the list of ideas, make sure they pass TM, etc and
select a "top ten choices" that we'll put up for an open
vote. Whatever
name is supported the most by the vote is the one we'll
choose for
the project.
If these dates feel too tight we can be a little pliable, but we
are hoping
to update our Proposal and have the voting (start) before the
upcoming
ApacheCon if possible.
There's obviously an endless amount of ways to go about picking a
name...
this might not be the best, but we wanted to engage the Apache
incubator
and our existing Community in contributing. We're betting that with
everyone's creative juices flowing - we're going to collectively
come up
with a cool name that represents the project well and that most
people like.
I hope you'll give us your support.
thanks -Jim
