2007/3/17, Scott Peterson <<a href="mailto:lunchtimemama@gmail.com">lunchtimemama@gmail.com</a>>:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><span class="e" id="q_1115cfcea69457f9_0">On 3/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen</b> <<a href="mailto:mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div><div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div>
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<div><span>2007/3/16, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <<a href="mailto:mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com
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2007/3/16, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <<a href="mailto:mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com</a>>:<div><div><span>
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2007/3/16, Luca Dionisi <<a href="mailto:luca.dionisi@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">luca.dionisi@gmail.com</a>>:<div><span><span class="gmail_quote"></span>
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On 3/16/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <<a href="mailto:mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">mikkel.kamstrup@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Also I don't even know what
<br>> Xdg stands for :-)<br><br>I found this:<br>
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdg" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdg</a><br><br>I am for the politically correct XdgSomething</blockquote></span>
<div><br>Ah, thanks, now I know that :-)<br><br>I'm not sure if we need some kind of blessing to brand it as Xdg though... Is there are formal *group* behind the "g", or is it just a loose group of people with similar interests?
</div></div></blockquote></span></div><div><br><br>Ok, here's a round up:<br><br> - Brassica : Already taken.<br> - Sinapis : Appears to be clean. Good because it is close to synapse which is a connection, and bad because it is close to synaptic (the package manager)
<br> - Galanga : Appears clean. G could insinuate Gnome connection. Close to Galago and Galaga which are both interely different software projects<br> - Karashi : Appears clean. Could indicate KDE relation. <br> - Pequin : Appears clean. Looks and sounds a bit odd.
<br> - Aji : Appears clean. There's something about it I dislike<br> - XdgSearch: Totally clean (zero google hits). The "boring" but serious name. We do more than searching in the strict sense though<br></div>
- {Meta,Data}Sauce : Unlikely :-)<br><br>And now my brand new suggestion: "ximas" - eXtensible Interface for Metadata and Search services. Appears to be clean. It actually means something and sounds more techy than spice-inspired names. I hope this is a compromise of the suggestions so far. What do you think?
<br><br>Unless I get better proposals or good reasons not to use ximas I will dictate this as the new name so that we can on with the show :-)</div></blockquote></span></div><div><br><br>Ok, I really want to get past this asap. Having some quick conversations on IRC I've decided that we will use yet another name:
<br><br>"xesam" - eXtEnsible Search And Metadata specification<br><br>Why? xesam has the dual meaning of "open sesame" too and there is only 452 google hits on that word (ximas has ~119.000). I know there is an rdf store called "sesame" but I think the danger for confusion is quite low.
<br><br>Wasabi is dead. Long live xesam.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Mikkel<br></div><br></div><br>
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http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg</a><br><br></span></blockquote></div><br>Looking at "xesam," I'm not sure how to pronounce it. Is it "ZEE-sam" or "zeh-sum" or "zeh-SAM" or "ZEE-SAM"? It's tough to get my tongue around any of those pronunciations. What about "unisami" (pronounced "uni-sammy") for UNIfied Search And Metadata Interface. I would prefer dropping the 'I", but "UniSAM" is some smartcard thing (
<a href="http://www.gemplus.com/products/unisam/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.gemplus.com/products/unisam/</a>). Luckily, "unisami" has all of two hits on Google.
</blockquote><div><br>Unisami is good I give you that, but the race was over a few minutes ago :-) I already started to propogate the xesam name in a few places.<br><br>I pronounce it ZEEsam, but feel free to pronounce it how ever you like. I'm not really troubled by the not-100%-clear pronounciation since lots of other succesful foss projects has this problem on a much grander scale. How do you say QT or Gnome? I think I hear this wrongly pronounced 90% of the time :-)
<br><br>Cheers,<br>Mikkel<br></div><br></div><br>