On 11/10/11 6:12 AM, Donald Harbison wrote:
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Pedro Giffuni<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello;
An important question. The vote is for choosing the
product name, can the project name be different?
The vote is for the product name, if you wish to begin a [DISCUSSON] about
the project name, is your choice. Be aware that we began the podling as
described here: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openofficeorg.html
To make this clear: I would think it practical to
keep option (a) for the product, but option (b)
for the project.
Please cast your vote for the product only. That is the ballot.
i think it is important to know the possibilities later for a project name.
If we vote for a) and later on the project name would be the same and
the project Url would be openofficeorg.apache.org. Then i would say a
bad choice.
And thinking more about the visibility of the product name in various
places on a desktop. I would really like to keep OpenOffice.org as it
was in the past because of the well known brand awareness.
So my question is where should the new product name be used all about?
Only on the intro screen, in the help system, in all written docu where
we use the product name. Or also as name for the install directory, menu
entries etc.
I never liked the .org but have conditioned my brain to use it over the
past 14 years. Many people don't say OpenOffice.org but OpenOffice,
means it is more often used when you reference the product somewhere in
written form.
Juergen
Just wondering if there will be a second vote for
the project name.
regards,
Pedro.
--- On Wed, 11/9/11, Donald Harbison<[email protected]> wrote:
We've had a lengthy discussion on
ooo-marketing regarding trademark and
branding considerations and options. It's time we moved
forward and made a
decision in order to expedite the ongoing migration of the
web site and to
remove one more obstacle from the dev team.
We want to preserve and protect the historic OpenOffice.org
trademark. The
choice of an Apache name and new trademark will not impact
the historic
mark as granted to the Apache Software Foundation for
stewardship.
Since this is a major decision we felt it important to
bring it back to
ooo-dev for final discussion then vote. We have the choices
presented on
the wiki[1] for your reference.
[1]https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOOUSERS/**
Branding+Planning<
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Branding+Planning>
