Interesting, I expected that it is based directly on the name of the Pharos island where lighthouse of Alexandria was located :-)
Btw. do we have got an SVG version of the Pharo logo? -- Pavel On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Marcus Denker <marcus.den...@inria.fr> wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:24 AM, "Peter H. Meadows" > <peter.h.mead...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Where does the name 'Pharo' come from? > > > From some brainstorming session in early 2008... the idea is that it is a mix > of > the Portuguese Farol and the french Phare for light-house. > >> How should it be pronounced? > > I pronounce it with a non-english "a"... but there is no standard. > (like in spanish Mate, the tea stuff, not like the english mate) > >> Is the thing inside the O supposed to be a lighthouse or a beetle? >> > Lighthouse. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2LeNBY_5gk > > -- > Marcus Denker -- http://marcusdenker.de > >
