New Zealand "Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipuk akapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu" was also not bad... ;)
(TRANSLATION: “The brow of the hill where Tamatea, with the bony knees, slid and climbed mountains. The great traveler sat and played on the flute to his beloved.”) On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 07:44 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote: > Hi > > Ok I went with Giovanni's suggestion of Capiopo for this release - see > the new splash screen in trunk. > > Regards > > Tim > > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Benoit de Cabissole > <ben...@exigesa.com> wrote: > > > > > > On 17/10/2010 10:37, Tim Sutton wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Leong <loldog2...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> How about hill names as release names? > >>> Hills is better than mountains because mountains is always too well > >>> known and probably been used by others. > >>> Moreover, their shape can be used to differentiate releases. > >>> > >>> One example: Bohol > >>> > >> Any nice pics to go with your suggestion? I quite like the idea since > >> philosophically each release is another hill we have climbed and put > >> behind us :-) > > > > Or characteristics contour lines of the hill (we are dealing with GIS > > after all)? > > > > My 2 cents > > Benoit > > > >> Lets keep the discussion on-list ok? > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> Tim > >> > >>> On 10/17/10, Tim Sutton <li...@linfiniti.com> wrote: > >>>> Hi > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_...@wildintellect.com> > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> I agree that real place names is a better idea. I could see lots of > >>>>> Mythical/Fictitious names actually being claimed by people. I will also > >>>>> point out that the Mozilla Foundation uses National Parks/Reserves in > >>>>> the code naming of pre-release firefox branches and suggest that we > >>>>> could do something with a greater cause as our release names: > >>>>> Endangered Species, World Heritage Sites, Rivers, Mountain Peaks, etc.. > >>>>> (suggest your idea) > >>>>> > >>>> Sorry in retrospect my original email was probably unclear. It was my > >>>> intention that we use *real* (hence photographable) place names, but > >>>> obscure ones that a) have some geographical interest and b) are > >>>> unlikely to ever have been used by someone as a trademark. Having a > >>>> theme to the place names would be fine (making them really obscure and > >>>> interesting was kind of my idea for a theme, but another theme would > >>>> be fine too). > >>>> > >>>> Using well known places e.g. Moscow as Maxim suggests will lead to > >>>> similar conflicts as using planetary moons. > >>>> > >>>> Regards > >>>> > >>>> Tim > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> We could also de-emphasize the release name and use it amongst the > >>>>> developer group to keep track of what's being worked on, ie the trunk > >>>>> will have a name leading up to it's release and then switch names. > >>>>> > >>>>> I also agree, to just avoid the issue as it's not worth our effort to > >>>>> fight. > >>>>> > >>>>> Thanks, > >>>>> Alex > >>>>> > >>>>> On 10/16/2010 03:06 PM, Maxim Dubinin wrote: > >>>>>> How about making release names geographic. QGIS 1.6 "Moscow" sounds > >>>>>> good and easily memorizable. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Maxim > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Вы писали 16 октября 2010 г., 14:07:10: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> TS> Hi > >>>>>> > >>>>>> TS> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Jürgen E. <j...@norbit.de> wrote: > >>>>>>>> Hi Tim, > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> On Sat, 16. Oct 2010 at 01:42:54 +0200, Tim Sutton wrote: > >>>>>>>>> We (the PSC) recently received a threat of legal action against our > >>>>>>>>> use of the word 'Tethys' in the naming of the 1.5 release of QGIS. > >>>>>>>>> It seems that the word Tethys is trademarked by a company in one > >>>>>>>>> country. > >>>>>>>>> Although we feel their case is weak, we do not have the time, money > >>>>>>>>> or > >>>>>>>>> inclination to engage in a legal battle over this. > >>>>>>>> Does OSGeo have a position on this? I thought the OSGeo umbrella was > >>>>>>>> also > >>>>>>>> covering legal support. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Just curious - that would probably be a waste of time of resources > >>>>>>>> anyway. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>> TS> Ok Frank covered that. And yeah we should pick our battles... > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> This has a few implications: > >>>>>>>>> - The PSC has agreed to stop using planetary moons as the names for > >>>>>>>>> our releases, and embark on a new theme of using extremely obscure > >>>>>>>>> place names (e.g. the mythical Tweebuffelsmeteenskootgeskietfontein > >>>>>>>>> in > >>>>>>>>> South Africa). > >>>>>>>> Do we need codenames at all? Any name - obscure or not - could be a > >>>>>>>> trademark. > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>> TS> *sniff* lose the release names? That would be no fun....should we > >>>>>> let > >>>>>> TS> big corporations take away our fun? :-P > >>>>>> > >>>>>> TS> But yeah theoretically we don't need them, though personally I'd > >>>>>> like > >>>>>> TS> to continue with them... > >>>>>> > >>>>>> TS> Regards > >>>>>> > >>>>>> TS> Tim > >>>>>> > >>>>>>>> Jürgen > >>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>> -- > >>>>>>>> Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. > >>>>>>>> +49-4931-918175-20 > >>>>>>>> Dipl.-Inf. 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