Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Time for a name change?

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Posted by Joel Natividad on
Some idears:

After some Japanimation characters (like mozilla after godzilla)

Or maybe, a character from the Asimov Foundation Series:
  • Olivaw - the super-robot that became humanity's caretaker
  • HariSeldon
  • Seldon
  • Galaxia
  • Elijah
  • Demerzel
  • Eto - catchy!
  • Trantor - the capital world of the Galactic Empire
  • Terminus
  • Kyrt - witty!
  • Sark - sexy!
Or maybe we can do something with the Lord of the Rings characters:
  • Gandalf - the wizard
  • Frodo
  • Arwen
  • Aragorn
Doing name association with these characters can also help us with the mascot as well. Also, these names have some cachet already and a prebuilt story which we can tailor to OACS (e.g. Daimos is the martial-arts robot, we are the martial arts community toolkit; Gandalf is the Merlin of TLOTR, you can work some magic with our toolkit; Olivaw is humanity's robot caretaker, our toolkit will allow you to take care of your community - cheesy, but you get my drift)

I know they have nothing to do with the community toolkit, but IMHO, most of the world's powerful brands don't really tell anything about what they do - they just roll of the tongue easily and just stick with you.