Forum OpenACS Q&A: New name: Pluribus

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Posted by Joshua Hecht on

"Pluribus"

  1. translates loosely to "many"
  2. is latin, and indicates subtle heritage to arsDigita (also latin)
  3. is distinctive
  4. is easy to pronounce, recognize, recall, and store in memory
  5. suggests something about the project's benefits - 'many' invokes ideas about numerous contributors (open-source), communities, etc.
  6. has positive associations -- 'e pluribus unum' (one out of many) invokes ideas of colloboration, democracy

(name derived from a M. Feldstein suggestion, applied A. Farkas' tests, and reasoned it out with A. Sanyal)