Hi all, I also vote for YADE-OpenXXX ...10 points Pay attention... not literally "OpenXXX"!!! ...but "OpenDEM", "OpenFEM", OpenBEAM,...
Fabio > >>>How do I give 100 points to Frederics idea of a Yade-Open DEM / >>>Yade-Open BEAM / Yade-Open Whatever suite? ;-) >>>I like this idea a lot. >>> >>> >> >> >>You have voted for YADE-OpenDEM and that's it. >> >>The point is, however, that we seek a single name. It is obvious what >>will be the names of various components (DEM, FEM, BEAM, etc...) >> >>We will make a new website, with a new title at the top. And what >>would we place there - three names? >> >> Yade-Open DEM / Yade-Open BEAM / Yade-Open Whatever ? >> >>And add a new new each time a new package is added? Or maybe a single >>name: >> >> Yade-Open ? >> >>I hope that you see the point now - the names for various components >>are obvious. But we need a single name to name them all together. >> >> > My vote is in fact "keep the old name". > The "new" title at the top of the "new" site would be "Yade" then. > The main problem with this name (Yade) is that 1) it does not indicate > the fact that the project is open-source and 2) it gives no idea of what > the software is. > Currently, if you type "open fem" in google the first result is the > openFEM site. > If you type "open dem" you find nothing related to the DEM or Yade. Of > course, Yade is not only a DEM platform, but DEM-package is the one wich > have the more users, and it will attract the more people. > Naming the packages explicitely (openDEM, openBEAM,...) in the old > website could be enough to solve the problem on the google side. > Everybody looking for an open dem code will find yade. > It will be possible to refer to a specific Yade-OpenXXX package in > publications too. > > Bruno > > > > > > -- > _______________ > Chareyre Bruno > Maître de conférence > > Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble > Laboratoire 3S (Soils Solids Structures) - bureau I08 > BP 53 - 38041, Grenoble cedex 9 - France > Tél : 04.56.52.86.21 > ________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Yade-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/yade-users > > _______________________________________________ Yade-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/yade-users
