<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Stradivari..... Sounds like a violin, could do a musical theme, violins, an orchestra, stylized notes ect.<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">in.sourada@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Design-team] F12 names and themeability<br>To: "Fedora Design Team" <design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org><br>Received: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009, 1:58 AM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 08:24 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:<br>> Hi Design Team.<br>> <br>> As you're probably aware we are working early on the F12 naming<br>> process, to provide the Fedora Design team plenty of time for theming<br>> the next release, as requested. The community submitted names to the<br>> wiki page, and then the Board did a vote on the community names that<br>> passed the initial
review process. The top names will be sent to<br>> Legal for final approval and then turned into a ballot on which the<br>> whole community will vote. Therefore, the top name on the Board's<br>> list may not end up winning the final vote. I'm only going to list<br>> the top 16 or so names here to make things easier for this team -- the<br>> idea is that I will send about 12 names to Legal, and hope for at<br>> least 8 back that pass legal review.<br>> <br>> I would ask that people remember that themes can be very broad and<br>> simply "inspired" by a name. For example, "Heisenberg" is the name of<br>> a scientist who postulated the Uncertainty Principle (that measuring<br>> certain subatomic events actually changed the nature of those<br>> events). So that name lends itself to things like atoms/molecules, or<br>> other interconnectedness that could represent community, and
building<br>> structure from small things.<br>> <br>> Before I send the list on to Legal, I would like the Design team to<br>> look at these names and give me some indication of their themeability.<br>> <br>> I think the easiest way to accomplish this is for anyone participating<br>> in the Design team to indicate whether they think a name *can* be<br>> themed, either with "+1" and/or an idea for how to do it. If there<br>> are any names for which no one indicates themeability, I will consider<br>> leaving those off the list for final review by Legal.<br>> <br>> Josh Boyer, the Board, and I are performing this process early --<br>> before Fedora 11 is even released! -- because the Design Team has<br>> asked for that repeatedly. Therefore the sooner you can get me your<br>> input, the sooner I can send these on to Legal, and set up a community<br>> voting process for the actual F12 name. I
would really like it if I<br>> can get people's input in the next 24-48 hours!<br>> <br>> The list:<br>> <br>> Quetzalcoatl <br>+1 should be probably possible to do some simplified or abstract-ized<br>version of this deity.<br><br>> Constantine<br>unsure. I can imagine connection to Constantinople but I don't have in<br>mind any concrete idea that would work good as default wallpaper<br><br>> Hubble<br>+1 either stylised satellites or deep-space like view should be<br>plausible<br><br>> Umbria<br>not sure what this is, wikipedia says it's in Italy, so we could maybe<br>go with some landscape images, but seeing how we failed with that for<br>F11...<br><br>> Hippokoon<br>unsure.<br><br>> Heisenberg<br>+1<br><br>> Goliath<br>> Rugosa<br>> Adamastor<br>> Orville<br>> Chilon<br>> Wallace<br>> Elvis<br>> Cimrman<br>> Alexander<br>> Stradivari<br>> <br>These are all names of (imaginary) people, it
seems... For Cimrman you<br>can go with probably anything (since he invented everything...) also it<br>appeals to me because I am Czech... Stradivari would be probably nice<br>for taking some parts of violins and building the themes around it,<br>similar for Elvis (though with guitar or just music in general). Not<br>sure about the rest... Maybe others would have some ideas on these.<br><br>Martin<br><br></div><br>-----Inline Attachment Follows-----<br><br><div class="plainMail">_______________________________________________<br>design-team mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org" href="/mc/compose?to=design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org">design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br><a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team</a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>
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