recycling "Fedora Insight" name?

Chaoyi Zha summermontreal at gmail.com
Wed May 6 21:48:17 UTC 2015


Insight seems like a good word for such a blog, but it also sounds a bit
off. It's abstract, and can be confused with an application.
It may be better to choose something more straightforward.

On Wed, 6 May 2015 at 16:45 Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 01:25:53PM -0400, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
> > On 05/05/2015 12:12 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > > I'm still unsure about "news", because I'm afraid that people will
> > > think that it's just another announce-list (or devel-announce). A lot
> > > of the things I anticipate posting would be kind of "pre-news" — this
> > > is being worked on (and maybe needs input), rather than this was
> > > _done_. Plus, I want somewhere to post articles along the lines of
> > > <http://fedoramagazine.org/lets-talk-about-fedora-project-objectives/
> >,
> > > which isn't news at all.
> > >
> > > I'm happy to drop "insight", though, if people aren't fond of it, or
> > > worse, have a negative association — I don't really have any
> > > association with it _at all_, other than I know many of you were
> > > working on it and then it morphed into the Magazine instead.
> >
> > I guess I'm unfamiliar w/the Insight history. News seems fine, and "what
> > we're doing / working on that will soon affect you" does fit under the
> > "news" category.
>
> I don't think it's as much a negative association per se as a name
> with history attached that would confuse people.  It was a project
> that fizzled, so to reuse the name would be confusing about how this
> new site came about.  -1 Insight for me too.
>
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