Or maLinda? There's Lindane, but that's something else. It might avoid bugs.
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Ian Holsman <i...@holsman.com.au> wrote: > What about DaNil? Or DaLin? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 18/11/2012, at 9:12 AM, Sebastian Schaffert > <sebastian.schaff...@salzburgresearch.at> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> first of all, thanks for the feedback so far... >> >> Am 17.11.2012 um 20:08 schrieb Andy Seaborne: >> >> >>> You're right changing the name can be done later but the name tends to get >>> embedded both in the system (e.g. URLs, JIRA project) and more importantly >>> in people knowing about the community. >>> >>> Renaming for the community is hard and risky - I would say it is easier to >>> sort it out as part of project initialization if you believe the name >>> change is likely. >>> >>> I did a quick search and found 2 "linda"s: Linda Spaces (the blackboard >>> system that, I guess, is triggering the comments here) and TCP Linda, a >>> parallel execution environment (which may well be related to the blackboard >>> linda). >>> >>> TCP Linda ==> >>> http://www.gaussian.com/g_prod/linda.htm >>> >>> Linda spaces leads to JavaSpaces so is a known name in the Java world at >>> least. There is a SourceForge project linda (but looks dormant) >>> >>> Andy >> >> >> I agree that "Linda" is a very generic name and as such there are already >> several projects out there with this name. On the other hand, we chose >> "Linda" as an acronym for "Linked Data" in order to increase recognizability >> especially in the domain we are targeting. For our community, we think it >> would be quite easy to identify "Apache Linda" with the Linked Data Platform >> and not with a blackboard system or a methodology for parallel execution. A >> more artificial name would probably have a harder time establishing a brand >> (but of course the project is good enough to manage ;-) ). >> >> In case the Incubator PMC still recommends to rename the project, I agree we >> should do it BEFORE starting up the project. We will discuss options for >> renaming on Monday (European Time) and come up with suggestions. >> >> Greetings, >> >> >> Sebastian >> -- >> | Dr. Sebastian Schaffert sebastian.schaff...@salzburgresearch.at >> | Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft http://www.salzburgresearch.at >> | Head of Knowledge and Media Technologies Group +43 662 2288 423 >> | Jakob-Haringer Strasse 5/II >> | A-5020 Salzburg >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
