Brainstorming for the manager project name!

Jannis Pohlmann info at sten-net.de
Tue Aug 16 16:46:30 CEST 2005


>> [snip]
>>
>>Here's a few suggestions that sprung up from Jannis' ideas. They don't
>>adhere to the rule "They all have to with the origin of hurricanes",
>>but I find them nice names and perhaps suitable for the mix. Weren't
>>we supposed to be brainstorming here anyway? ;)
>>
>>Here we go:
>> - Aurora
>> - Corona
>>
>>Aurora is my definite favourite. The astronomic term for northern
>>lights. Means 'the dawn' in French (and Latin I think) as well.
>>
>>A Corona is the "halo" that surrounds a star. It could be seen as
>>something that surrounds Xfce and extends and spreads it (at least if
>>tried really hard;). Unfortunately it's also a beer label, which
>>makes this one a bit less appealing (good beer though).
>>
>>A quick (stress on the word quick) search on Google came with no results
>>that'd conflict with use of any of these names names in the proposed
>>project.
>>
>>Yeah, I need better things to do. ;)
>>
>>-Pasi
> 
> 
> Hey, I really like "Aurora".
> 

But, well, there's http://www.aurora-systems.com/ and
http://www.ramsete.com/aurora/,
http://sharptoolbox.com/Tool34536b96-587d-40ce-a826-fece3a44c5d4.aspx
and probably some more. I don't know to which extend they could force us
to use a different name.



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