I vote A, Open Build Service (but only by a small factor over C.)
I VIGOROUSLY oppose B on the grounds of ambiguity creating confusion. regards, Helen On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Bryen M. Yunashko <susero...@bryen.com> 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". >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Rajko > > > 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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org > For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscr...@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+h...@opensuse.org
