On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 04:40:38PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:37:18PM +0200, Stephan Beal wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> > 
> > i recently got a tablet and developed my first working Android app[1], and
> > now i'm setting my sights back to something i tinkered with some months
> > back but never did anything useful with: a Java client for Fossil, based on
> > the JSON API. The primary target would be Android (because that's more fun
> > for me than desktop apps), but the underlying components could reasonably
> > be made portable enough be re-used in other contexts (applets, desktop
> > apps, or an app server).
> > 
> > But it needs a name, and that's where i need your help :). "Fossilroid" is
> > my current favourite but i'm not emotionally attached to it.
> > 
> > Ideas?
> 
> Replicant (Blade Runner name for biological androids, based on the book
> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
> 
> Fossroid (shorter than Fossilroid, and probably creates possitive
> associations with "free/open source software" though, like "Fossilroid",
> it kinda calls hemorrhoids to mind)
> 
> Ingen (after InGen, the company creating dinosaurs from fossils in
> Jurassic Park)

. . . or Relic, perhaps.  Androids don't become fossils recovered on
archaeological digs; they become relics!  I suppose Trilobite might be
good, too.

-- 
Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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