Stefan Müller-Wilken wrote:
> In fact and AFAIK, there _was_ no community other than the persons involved 
> when the name was chosen as this was before official project launch. I'm with 
> you with the nice "horse-out-of-the-barn" picture. The name is there and I'm 
> not sure if changing it would increase our momentum.

The community was those who showed up in person or on IRC for the
hackathon announced in opensolaris-announce, and hung around afterwards.
(I was there in IRC most of the way from the hackathon to announce.)

> The only chance I see is in shortening it a little bit. What about reducing 
> it to 'Indiana'. I don't think that Sun^WOracle has registered that one and 
> would remind a little more of Solaris as a brand, it is catchy and leaves 
> much room for logo design ;-)

And would be a lot harder to find in google searches or register domain
names for.   OpenIndiana is unique, Indiana is very very overloaded.

-- 
        -Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System


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