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(geir@67.86.9.229) by vdmx01.ivresearch.net with SMTP; 24 Sep 2006 23:48:28 -0000 Message-ID: <4517194A.7000904@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:48:26 -0400 From: Geir Magnusson Jr Reply-To: geir@pobox.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: general@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [JiniProposal] Choosing a new name... References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N 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: > > > 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, jim.hurley@sun.com 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 > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org