On 08/17/2012 05:26 PM, Steve Linabery wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:19:26PM -0400, Hugh Brock wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 04:55:24PM +0100, Martyn Taylor wrote:
Gentlemen,
To follow rubygem tradition we have decided to come up with a more
catchy name for Image Management Engine. Because, well, Image
Management Engine is pretty dull. This task is harder than it
seems. It turns out the creative side of my mind has been locked
away in a little box. I'm hoping one day I'll find the key, but
right now it's looking grim so I'm relying on you guys for
inspiration :)
We're open to all suggestions wackier the more memorable :). One
thing we would like is do is keep in with the Cloud or Conductor
theme.
Any ideas?
Image management engine is the API for Factory and the data structures
associated with images and templates, right?
yeah thats right.
Factory wraps Oz. Oz is (I believe) so named because it operates in an
imaginary land (the virtual machine). You get to Oz via Kansas. So, you
could call the thing Kansas... or maybe more poetically, "tornado" or
"whirlwind."
I like your thought process here. Unfortunately:
whirlwind, tornado, hurricane are api-twister (which might get confused
with twister) are all taken.
cyclone is free though.
Also sticking to the wind theme. How about wind tunnel? Or turbo-fan :P
Or if you wanted to be off the wall you could just call it "Winged
Monkey" and let people ask.
Yeah, wacky ones are memorable and I can envisage some pretty cool logos
off of "winged monkey" ;)
I thought of "Emerald City" too, but I'm not sure exactly how that
relates, other than that the Emerald City has gates, and the IME is kind
of a gateway to Oz in a sense.
This is such fun...
--H
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== Hugh Brock, [email protected] ==
== Engineering Manager, Cloud BU ==
== Aeolus Project: Manage virtual infrastructure across clouds. ==
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"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m
not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
--Robert McCloskey
twister and cyclone are other nice names for tornadoes.
