Am 2014-11-20 um 22:20 schrieb Stephen Connolly:
On Thursday, November 20, 2014, Michael Osipov <micha...@apache.org> wrote:
Am 2014-11-20 um 21:21 schrieb Michael Osipov:
My opinion on this:
I do not like the connection between the owl and the word maven.
While the owl stands for wisdom in the Greek culture as on the Greek
euro coins, Maven is not of Greek origin. It is cleary of Hebrew/Jewish
[1] origin. I see no connection here. I would rather see an old and wise
man.
Well one advantage the owl has is that there is no obvious gender - apart
from my unconscious bias referring to it as Mr :-P - whereas the wise old
man could be perceived as biased, agest, sexist or belittling to wise women
(irrespective of age)
For that reason I think an animal with no obvious gender differences is
probably a better fit
You obviously misunderstood me. I wasn't talking about genders and nor
am I tied to a man specifically. The point is, the owl is not rooted in
the Jewish culture as is the word/meaning of maven not rooted in the
Greek one.
Moreover, the mascot name might violate trademarks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimentation_Couche-Tard
I don't want Apache Maven to be linked to a convenience store from Canada.
Michael
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