Hi Andrew, Welcome to this mailing list!
We've had a similar discussion about a year ago [1] and decided then to leave the project name as it is. But if there are new circumstances we might need to reconsider. As you may have noticed we always refer to the project as "Apache Isis", not "ISIS". In Dutch media I see a trend of abandoning ISIS in favour of IS and Daesh [2] but don't know the situation well in foreign media. Personally I think the current name does not hinder our growth and changing the name would not speed up things either. I'm still biased to leave things as they are and devote our limited resources in making our framework better. FYI: the project has been named after the river Isis, the part of the river Thames that flows through Oxford [3]. Jeroen [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-982 [2] http://theweek.com/speedreads/446139/france-says-name-isis-offensive-call-daesh-instead [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Isis On 23 November 2015 at 06:55, Andrew Voumard <andr...@melbpc.org.au> wrote: > Hi, > > Have there been any suggestions or thoughts of changing the project name > from isis to something else ? I only ask, because searching for apache isis > usually brings up some unwanted / unsavoury results, and I would expect > that might just increase over time. It also might trigger email spam > filtering, company firewall rules, etc to kick in for some. I could imagine > other contexts in which the mere occurrence of the word isis might create > some unwanted distraction or issue. > > I can appreciate how much upheaval that such a name change could cause, > but nonetheless thought it worth asking about. > > Thanks > >
