Question for the WG (and SIG) -- do you want to keep "Workstation"?

[Christian Schaller]

They wouldn't initially, but hopefully as we do our releases they will start to,
it would be a brand building exercise on our part. I mean the term "U2" is only
associated with great music since the band has been building the U2 brand by
offering great music under that name.

It would also let us escape preconceptions about what words like 'Workstation', 'Desktop'
and 'Client' is supposed to mean. 

That said this is an idea I had for a while, but I have not proposed it before as I 
think we have more important things to do that get stuck on name discussions. 
For instance we should be iterating on the technical specification:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Technical_Specification

Christian



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Frank Murphy" <frankly3d at gmail.com>
> To: desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 10:28:00 AM
> Subject: Re: Question for the WG (and SIG) -- do you want to keep	"Workstation"?
> 
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 03:55:08 -0500 (EST)
> Christian Schaller <cschalle at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> >  So instead of calling it workstation, desktop or client
> > I would be tempted to give it a unique name. When describing the idea
> > to people I have tended to use 'Fedora Bluecurve' as an example name,
> > although that specific name of course has its own set of baggage :)
> 
> I don't think most people would associate random? names with a product.
> The name should convey something of the product.
> 
> Target Audience "Developer"
> Developer (All in PRD)
> aka "Fedora DevStation" # ToolBox, Coder, Workstation, CodeBox,
> 
> 2: Am excluding "other" from the name.
> 
> The truth of the matter even in clothes "one size fits"
> does not carry over to reality. # not a gnome knock
> # http://www.salon.com/1999/11/30/naming/
> 
> ___
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> Frank
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