Brainstorming - A more representative name for Fedora Summer of Code

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 08:31:49PM -0600, Clint Savage wrote:
>> > * FISH? (Fedora Interning Students Helping)
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Seems very appropriate since that's really what it's all about.
>> Teaching them, and not doing for them.
>
> I have a concern about acronyms that include Fedora in the cleverness,
> as tempting as it is.  For example, my FUDCon shirts do not feature
> the Fedora brand -- they have a FUDCon sub-logo instead.  This is good
> for the FUDCon brand, but not as much for the Fedora brand.
>
> Fedora FISH, for example, could it.  Bonus if we can get a double
> acronym that is nice to work with - Fedora ISH, or something, but
> sounds kind of dorky. :)
>
> What think ye, fellow marketing-minded folks?  Should we avoid things
> that make acronyms that disguise the Fedora name?
>
> Another option is to go in a different direction from clever acronyms:
>
> Fedora University
> Fedora College
> College of Fedora
> Fedora Tree of Knowledge
> Fedora Library of Alexandria

Be careful of terms like College or University. Depending on where
they are, they can be regulated and thus only able to be given to
accredited organizations. Also Fedora University College and
Knowledgebase is out of the question.

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Stephen J Smoogen.
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