Fedora naming proposal

[Jon Ciesla]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 11:20 -0400, Lynn Dixon wrote:
>> So, with that concern being valid, what if we used the Periodic Table
>> of Elements as a "selection pool" and we let the Fedora Community vote
>> on which element to choose for the next release name?  This gives us a
>> large pool of non-offending names to choose from, but still letting
>> the community choose which name to use.
>
> Could we do periodic table + a modifier of some sort that isn't
> alliteration? Would that help alleviate trademark concerns? I love
> having some connection between science and Fedora, it seems natural.
>
> Maybe we could do the element corresponding to the release number, and
> have the community choose a modifier? Although I think a lot of the
> cooler names are in the numbers we've already passed :(
>
> Also Chromium will be interesting :(

Hmm.  What about anniversary materials?  Fedora Diamond, Fedora Paper,
Fedora Earthenware. . .

-J

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