[Wasabi] Project renaming

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2007/3/17, Scott Peterson <lunchtimemama at gmail.com>:
>
> On 3/16/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2007/3/16, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com >:
> >
> > > 2007/3/16, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>:
> > > >
> > > > 2007/3/16, Luca Dionisi <luca.dionisi at gmail.com>:
> > > > >
> > > > > On 3/16/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Also I don't even know what
> > > > > > Xdg stands for :-)
> > > > >
> > > > > I found this:
> > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xdg
> > > > >
> > > > > I am for the politically correct XdgSomething
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ah, thanks, now I know that :-)
> > > >
> > > > 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?
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ok,  here's a  round up:
> > >
> > >  - Brassica : Already taken.
> > >  - 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)
> > >  - Galanga : Appears clean. G could insinuate Gnome connection. Close
> > > to Galago and Galaga which are both interely different software projects
> > >  - Karashi : Appears clean. Could indicate KDE relation.
> > >  - Pequin : Appears clean. Looks and sounds a bit odd.
> > >  - Aji : Appears clean. There's something about it I dislike
> > >  - XdgSearch: Totally clean (zero google hits). The "boring" but
> > > serious name. We do more than searching in the strict sense though
> > >  - {Meta,Data}Sauce : Unlikely :-)
> > >
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > 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 :-)
> > >
> >
> >
> > 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:
> >
> > "xesam" -  eXtEnsible Search And Metadata specification
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Wasabi is dead. Long live xesam.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mikkel
> >
> >
> >
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> >
> 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 ( http://www.gemplus.com/products/unisam/).
> Luckily, "unisami" has all of two hits on Google.


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.

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 :-)

Cheers,
Mikkel
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