Greetings All,
Lourens has a fine point, let's get a name for this critter. However, for the time being as this product is quite a departure, lets focus on names that do not include Tech Source or its current product line. This product will need to be able to stand on its own, by its merits in order to succeed.
My first impression is that we choose from the third group, with "harbinger" being my favorite. Although OpenGlass is certainly very neat as well.
Also, I or Tim will be contacting the Maximum PC folks to see if we can get either a follow-up or a correction to the "homey" description the article leaves with the reader. If they are amicable then we should be able to receive more detailed press going forward.
We will still be able to push our professional angle, as that is what we are doing here after all, the strengths of this project come out to just about everyone I've spoken to about it, even those non-technical folks that just know when a good idea comes along.
I did appreciate the one line in the article "a first for the industry", that was worth a high-five right there!
Comments?
RandyW
Lourens Veen wrote:
On Wednesday 23 March 2005 20:13, Joe Bushong wrote:
There is a short news article about the Open Graphics Project in this month's MaximumPC magazine on page 15.
It is a very positive article but rightly points out that this will NOT be a performance card.
Unfortunately there isn't a link listed to the wiki or this email list but you can't ask for everything...
Maybe after we pick a permanent name for our card (my vote is for
OpenGlass) we can get some more press in Wired magazine and LWN.net
Maybe it's time to reopen the naming discussion. It's good to have a name if you want publicity. I found http://glass.sf.net yesterday. It's not hardware and it's not OpenGlass, but it may still be too close for comfort.
There are a few points of discussion:
- Do we keep the Raptor name TechSource uses for its other products?
Pros: We may get some cross-promotion between different TechSource cards, although the target market for this product is rather different than that of other TS products. The TechSource name itself will probably do that already, as well. The people at TechSource may want it (which would of course be an overriding concern).
Cons: It might make the wrong impression, and trigger "it sucks for gaming" responses. Then there is the issue of how professional it sounds. In the medical and ATC markets Raptor apparently works, but if we can get the name to give a strong impression that this is a professional card for people who get work done rather than the same thing you play games on, it would be a big plus I think. Kind of like Opteron vs. Athlon and Xeon vs. P4.
- Political issues
A major issue from a developer point of view is that the specs of the card will be open. That will be an important part of the market, since you need the specs for Open Source operating systems and probably for the embedded market. However, if we want this thing on a mainboard (perhaps instead of the five year old ATI Rage XL on a board like http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tomcatk8e.html) we'll probably be competing on price and driver quality. The mainboard manufacturer will want something that works on Windows at least, and we should be careful not to give too much of a GNU hippy feel to it :-). We should also be careful to avoid making the impression that the RTL will be freely available. So the openness should probably be in there somewhere, but the "professionalism" criterium carries at least as much weight.
Here are the names that are currently on the Wiki (http://wiki.duskglow.com/index.php/OpenGraphics%20videocard%20naming). I removed minor variations and grouped them a bit:
TS Raptor TS Raptor OpenView TS Raptor Transcension TS Raptor OpenGraphics TS Raptor OpenStealth TS OpenRaptor TS Raptor Freedom
Heart of Gold Harbinger ORC Harbinger Lightbringer TS Visionary Freedom
Graphite TS Glass TS OpenGlass TS Aventurine TS Tiger's Eye TS Zircon
OpenPower TS OpenGraphics TSOSGC01
Right now my vote would go to something from the bottom two groups. Although TSOSGC01 is probably a bit too much :-).
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