Hi Dave, I prefer not to rush a vote for FlexJS because I feel like Carlos and Om are starting to change some minds. AFAICT, everyone who was in favor of FlexJS as the name was mainly concerned about how migrating Flex customers will find that we have something that can help them. And the answer to that is going to affect my decision, so maybe we need to focus on that quickly.
It could be that it doesn’t matter whether FlexJS is the product name because migrating customers just want to know that it is a next generation of Flex and can help them with migration and don't care what it is called. Also, we have a transition problem anyway. If the fork is approved, we're going to want to put in redirects on parts of flex.a.o that mention FlexJS referring to the fork. Maybe those redirects could go anywhere unless folks will somehow be more assured by landing on a FlexJS page instead of a Foo page? IOW, maybe FlexJS is out there enough that redirects will be how people find us regardless of name. Thoughts? -Alex On 9/13/17, 1:59 PM, "Dave Fisher" <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote: >Hi - > >Sent from my iPhone > >> On Sep 13, 2017, at 1:40 PM, Harbs <harbs.li...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Carlos’ argument carries weight to me. >> >> If a new name will help motivate him in terms of marketing it, that’s >>value I can recognize. >> >> The name is not as important to me as motivating people to be involved >>in the project. We can build whatever messages we want around the name. >> >> Carlos clearly feels more passionate about his position than I do about >>mine. >> >> A hesitation I have about picking a new name is that I don’t want to >>delay the board’s decision on the new PMC. If we go for a new name can >>we try and pick one quickly? > >Let's start the FlexJS yes or no vote tonight or tomorrow morning. > >In parallel we can discuss other names if a new name is the result then >we can immediately start the next vote. We have just enough time. > >Regards, >Dave > > >> >> Harbs >> >>> On Sep 13, 2017, at 9:20 PM, Carlos Rovira >>><carlos.rov...@codeoscopic.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I'm putting some efforts here since I think this is really important >>>for >>> all of us and for our beloved FlexJS project. >>> >>> Name, website and all the visuals behind it matters....and is >>>important in >>> a way many of us in this community maybe can't imagine. If we don't >>>get a >>> fresh and compelling name and a clean and beautiful site where we >>>explain >>> all the great things our technology can do, we are losing our time, >>>since >>> this project will end with the bulk of the others xxxJS projects, and >>> that's even horrible when our tech could be used for things other than >>>JS!! >>> (If we want in future years to make it possible). >>> >>> @Alex: I Think we can't have a PROJECT name != of PRODUCT name for >
