Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-30 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marshall Schor wrote: Based on information in the notes about the Braintree proposal, I used the service at the US Patent and Trademark office to look up UIMA - it generates no hits. Honu (one of the alternative names earlier proposed)

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-30 Thread eddie_epstein
Marshall, Please use the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Apache stuff rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Eddie Ken was the one really pushing for a new name, but he seems to have accepted that the community is fine with keeping the old name. -Marshall Original Message

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-29 Thread Michael Baessler
robert burrell donkin wrote: On 10/27/06, Sami Siren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marshall Schor wrote: The most popular way to pronounce UIMA is you-eee-muh. There is a fairly large user community using pre-Apache UIMA. The potential confusion about which UIMA people may be talking about

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-29 Thread Marshall Schor
Based on information in the notes about the Braintree proposal, I used the service at the US Patent and Trademark office to look up UIMA - it generates no hits. Honu (one of the alternative names earlier proposed) generates several hits - it's a live trademark. You can try this at

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-28 Thread robert burrell donkin
On 10/27/06, Sami Siren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marshall Schor wrote: The most popular way to pronounce UIMA is you-eee-muh. There is a fairly large user community using pre-Apache UIMA. The potential confusion about which UIMA people may be talking about may be mitigated somewhat by

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-27 Thread Sami Siren
Marshall Schor wrote: The most popular way to pronounce UIMA is you-eee-muh. There is a fairly large user community using pre-Apache UIMA. The potential confusion about which UIMA people may be talking about may be mitigated somewhat by versioning. The pre-Apache releases are numbered

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-26 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mads Toftum wrote: +1 - there seems to have started some sort of fascination with changing names where there is no need. In general I'm not really a fan of naming things so that it is impossible to guess what a project is (that's hard enough as

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-26 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
Hi, - Original Message From: Rodent of Unusual Size [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mads Toftum wrote: +1 - there seems to have started some sort of fascination with changing names where there is no need. In general I'm not really a fan of naming

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-26 Thread Marshall Schor
The most popular way to pronounce UIMA is you-eee-muh. There is a fairly large user community using pre-Apache UIMA. The potential confusion about which UIMA people may be talking about may be mitigated somewhat by versioning. The pre-Apache releases are numbered 1.x.x; the Apache ones

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-20 Thread Adam Lally
of also pulling up pages about cute animals, islands, and so on. Otis - Original Message From: Thilo Goetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:27:40 AM Subject: Re: New Name for UIMA Podling? If there's no reason for us to change

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-19 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
] To: general@incubator.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 7:27:40 AM Subject: Re: New Name for UIMA Podling? If there's no reason for us to change the project name, then I for one would just like to keep the one we have. We have built some name recognition around UIMA already, and I hope

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-18 Thread Thilo Goetz
If there's no reason for us to change the project name, then I for one would just like to keep the one we have. We have built some name recognition around UIMA already, and I hope the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art will forgive us for usurping the #1 spot on Google ;-) --Thilo Mads

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-17 Thread Mads Toftum
On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:58:53PM +0200, Leo Simons wrote: Note UIMA is a fine name for an apache project. We have projects like +1 - there seems to have started some sort of fascination with changing names where there is no need. In general I'm not really a fan of naming things so that it

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-17 Thread Marshall Schor
The name UIMA has built up some amount of name recognition in the community where it is being adopted, so there's some advantage to not changing it. It also has an advantage of being rather short. For our project files currently on SourceForge, we used as a naming root uimaj - the j being

New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-16 Thread Adam Lally
Hi everyone, First a quick introduction: I am one of the original UIMA developers and am listed as an initial committer on our proposal. We've been trying to think up a more fun, non-acronym name for UIMA that fits in better with the spirit of the ASF. It probably makes sense to do this

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-16 Thread Leo Simons
On Oct 16, 2006, at 4:10 PM, Adam Lally wrote: We've been trying to think up a more fun, non-acronym name for UIMA that fits in better with the spirit of the ASF. Note UIMA is a fine name for an apache project. We have projects like APR and BSF and the like, too. But +1 on fun :) 1)

Re: New Name for UIMA Podling?

2006-10-16 Thread robert burrell donkin
snip On 10/16/06, Adam Lally [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However a possible negative for this name is that it might be hard to get a high Google ranking. i'm not sure that this should be a factor. the brand will be 'apache maui' (or honu or ...). try searching for any top level project (apache