[Ambassadors] Name for future Fedora distribition?

[Thomas Canniot]

What about Fedora Universe ? It has already been suggested, hasn't it?


Le vendredi 01 décembre 2006 à 15:54 +0800, Mohd Hanafiah Muhamad a
écrit :
> Hi All;
>  
> I would like to suggest 
>  
> 1) Fedora Tycoon - Info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycoon
> 2) Fedora Rafflesia - Info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafflesia
> 3) Fedora Keris - Info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keris.
> 4) Fedora Paracryptodira - Info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle
> 
>  
> On 12/1/06, Marc Wiriadisastra <marc at mwiriadi.id.au> wrote: 
>         Fedora United - the merger of Extras and Core
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>         From: "David Nalley" < david at gnsa.us>
>         To: <dimitris at glezos.com>; <fedora-ambassadors-list at redhat.com
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>         Sent: Friday, December 01, 2006 7:35 AM
>         Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Name for future Fedora
>         distribition?
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>         > Dimitris Glezos wrote:
>         > > Well, merging Core and Extras doesn't necessarily mean we
>         should
>         > change the name
>         >> of our distribution. I suggest for us to consider the cost
>         in changing 
>         >> the name.
>         >>
>         >> The name "Fedora Core" has established a reputation as "The
>         distribution
>         >> the
>         >> Fedora Project produces". If we completely discontinue the
>         "Core" product 
>         >> as
>         >> such, then there is no conflict in keeping that name for
>         our
>         >> distribution. It
>         >> will simply have a new meaning. Besides, that's what the
>         conscious is: we
>         >> are
>         >> opening up Core; we are not substituting it with something
>         new. We are
>         >> just
>         >> changing the build processes and mechanisms.
>         >
>         > I think Dimitris is absolutely correct. There is a high cost
>         with 
>         > 'rebranding'. Sometimes rebranding is necessary, but I am
>         not convinced
>         > that our 'internal process' change (admittedly visible to
>         anyone) is
>         > cause enough to justify rebranding or the immense effort
>         people would 
>         > have to go through to communicate that to the end user
>         nothing has
>         > changed, it's merely a process change.
>         >
>         > Since Gregdek has said that it can't be only 'Fedora' or
>         'Fedora Linux'
>         > and has also stated that '"The Fedora Project" is the
>         umbrella for 
>         > everything that Fedora does.' I think Fedora Core is a very
>         apt (thought
>         > I suppose I should say yummy instead) name, as producing a
>         > distribution/collection of packages is the CORE or central
>         focus of 'The 
>         > Fedora Project' .
>         >
>         >
>         > David Nalley
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