On Thursday, February 03, 2011 08:33:58 PM Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 19:04 -0600, Rajko M. wrote: > > On Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:19:24 am Bryen M. Yunashko wrote: > > > If I'm not mistaken (and it wouldn't be the first time I've been > > > mistaken) OBS also packages for Windows. Thus Linux Build Service > > > wouldn't work. Open is still the best. > > > > As mentioned before we can use only "OBS" and as explanation of acronym, > > it stood for openSUSE Build Service. The same thing that happened with > > S.u.S.E. conversion to SUSE, from Software und System Entwicklung to > > SUSE. Previous name has only historic value. > > > > "OBS a build service", for instance sounds good too me. > > Not as a recursive name, but more like "SUSE a Novell company". > > Ok so we've heard some good vigorous discussions of pros and cons from > both sides of the aisle and this is a good discussion. Even if nothing > comes of it, it still gave us a chance to exercise that muscle up in our > noggin about thinking marketing. But I think at this point we've > pretty much exhausted both sides arguments. > > So, in order to not turn this discussion into an endless thread and try > to summarize and figure out where to go from here, I see the following: > > 1. The choice is between "Open Build Service" and "openSUSE Build > Service" and leaving it at OBS and allowing people to spell it out > however they choose. > > 2. Do we recommend, as a marketing team, to propose either of the > options as listed in #1. Remember, we're just a segment of the overall > project and thus whatever we vote on is a recommendation and not a > binding change across the project. We can only vote on a consensus of > the above options and then recommend it to the OBS team and Project. > > Seems that we should be picking which name we want to use and move from > here. We have a lot of activities coming up where we can promote OBS > and the sooner we can come to a consensus and develop our marketing > strategies based on that consensus, the better. > > So... let's vote: > > A. We recommend formally changing the name to ""Open Build Service" > > B. We recommend formally changing the name to OBS and allowing people > to use "openSUSE Build Service" or "open Build Service" as they see fit. > > C. Leave it as is - openSUSE Build Service > > I'm entering my vote now for A. > > Bryen M Yunashko > openSUSE Marketing Team
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