Tami, I really appreciate you bringing this up to our attention. I think here or a Toree Jira is a good place to have this conversation. Corey and I have talked about alternatives.
I think the main goal is to retain the metaphor of Toree being a "Gateway" to Spark. Thanks, Gino On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:53 AM Tami Takamiya <ttaka...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > Hello, > > This is my first post to this mailing list. I am a natural language > processing developer and have lots of excitement on Toree/Spark, but this > post is not for technical discussions. This is on the "Torii" symbol used > for this project. > > I believe the Toree project should not use the "Torii" ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torii) symbol for the following two reasons: > > 1. It is a religious symbol ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_symbol) in Japan. > 2. It can be considered as offensive because it can remind people of > "State Shinto" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Shinto), which > Imperial Japan had ideologically used. > > 2 is the more delicate issue. As a Japanese, I understand the difference > between State Shinto and traditional Shinto ( > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto) and do not think the use of Torii > symbol is always offensive, but there is no reason to take such a risk. > And it is a religious symbol to many Japanese anyway and I believe it > should not be used for anything that is irrelevant to Shinto. > > Personally I think the name of the project "Toree" itself would be OK > because it has a different spelling from "Torii". At first, I thought it > was named from "Tory" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tory). > > I would like to hear opinions on this from Toree developement community. > Thank you. > > Tami (Masaaki) Takamiya > >
