There are already some names proposed in the etherpad, so, I'll setup a voting to choose top N options and discuss them detailed. The voting will be started after the next IRC team meeting next week, Feb 13.
Thanks. P.S. Looking forward for new name proposals :) On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Sergey Lukjanov <slukja...@mirantis.com>wrote: > Hi folks, > > As part of preparations for graduation from incubation [0], I've contacted > OpenStack Foundation Marketing team to ensure that everything is ok with > our program and project names from their point of view. Thanks for Lauren > Sell for providing info. > > Thetus Corporation already use 'Savanna' as the name for one of their > technologies [1]. Thetus doesn't actually hold any registered trademark for > 'Savanna', but they have common-law rights to the mark because they have > established use and marketed it since 2010, so, in case if we applied for a > trademark, they could certainly challenge us and win. So, the answer from > marketing team was that it's a pretty high risk to continue using our > lovely name... The most sad part is that I couldn't google their site using > words savanna, hadoop, cloud and etc. > > Let's move on to the new name selection process. I'm proposing one or two > weeks for brainstorming and sharing your thoughts about the project name > depending on number of suitable options, then I'll probably setup the small > voting to select the best option. > > I've created an etherpad [2] for discussing new name options, so, the > process is send your options to this thread and then go to the etherpad [2] > to discuss them. Please, don't forget to google your options to avoid one > more renaming in future ;) > > Thanks, looking forward for you thoughts. > > [0] > http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/incubation-integration-requirements- > "Project should have engaged with marketing team to check suitable > official name" > [1] http://www.thetus.com/savanna > [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/savanna-renaming > > -- > Sincerely yours, > Sergey Lukjanov > Savanna Technical Lead > Mirantis Inc. > -- Sincerely yours, Sergey Lukjanov Savanna Technical Lead Mirantis Inc.
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