On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:46 AM, P Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Mark Stosberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I don't mind the name Titanium, although I actually like saying "CGI >>> Application" or "cgi app" -- do we shorten "Titanium" to "tit"? :-) >> >> We would say "Ti" for short, like the chemical symbol. >> >>> Apart from the Ti chemical symbol logo and the name Titanium itself, >>> the site isn't very "metallic" what with the trees/leaves and green. >>> It's kind of like calling something Chocolate and then not using brown >>> as the primary colour but pink instead. The site design isn't as shiny >>> and solid as the new name might suggest. If you're going to re-brand, >>> you've got to go all the way and be complete. >>> >>> >> > http://cosmicsitedesign.com/cgi-app/ >> >> I agree there's some dissonance there between the brushed metal chemical >> symbol local and the soft/natural tree imagery. >> >> I take the blame for that, as I suggested both to the designer. I >> specifically wanted the branding to not the >> hard/metallic/technical/masculine look with gears, bright colors and >> hard edges. >> >> The project should evoke simplicity, a foundation, easy, flexibility, >> room to grow. Which is where the color palette and imagery came from. >> While I like the name "Titanium", I agree that it perhaps doesn't best >> express what we are trying to convey. What we are offering is not a >> giant machine with a huge user manual, it's more like a "seedwork" with >> little documentation required to get started with it. >> >> Someone suggested "Mantle" as alternative name. The name reasonably >> fits, as it describes a kind of "natural foundation" to that natural >> systems build and grow upon. It's also reasonably short. :) If we >> switched to it, I think that could solve the branding dissonance issue >> we currently have. >> >> Still, I'm also OK with Titanium and it has been in use some. On the >> other hand, a major marketing push and most of the users of this >> framework still lie ahead of, and may not know of it at all, so now is >> better than later if there's going to be name change. >> >> So, shall I set up a poll for Titanium vs. Mantle ? Other naming feedback? >> > > > Mantle++ >
another nice thing about Mantle is that a plugin can be referred to as a Mantlepiece. -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org/ Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org/ Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org/ Science Commons Fellow, Geospatial Data http://sciencecommons.org Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- collaborate, communicate, compete ======================================================================= ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
