Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
Somehow I get all these emails two to three times ;) I am not against a rename some much, but DIS is no better than CDD, really, so I am rather with Gert and Karsten. Better than DIS may be DUC (pronounced duck or dak) as an acronym for Debian User Community. I never understood though why it was

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:05:51AM +0200, Steffen Moeller a écrit : why it was not just called Special Interest Group (SIG) Hi Steffen, I strongly oppose SIG, it should be reserved my hometown's Strasbourg Illkirch-Graffenstaden basketball club's name ;)

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:05:51 +0200 Steffen Moeller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never understood though why it was nut just called Special Interest Group (SIG), something that everyone would grasp immediately. If we were trying to describe something that everyone grasped immediately, then using

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Salvador Garcia Z.
Steffen Moeller escribió: Somehow I get all these emails two to three times ;) I am not against a rename some much, but DIS is no better than CDD, really, so I am rather with Gert and Karsten. Better than DIS may be DUC (pronounced duck or dak) as an acronym for Debian User Community. I never

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Will Hill
I think I understand your frustration but be patient. Free software is on the rise. When people understand free software, they will understand any language Debian uses. I like the word Customization and think it conveys the correct meaning. There's also more than one kind of customization