Brainstorming - A more representative name for Fedora Summer of Code

[Robyn Bergeron]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Oh, smooge, you just made my day :D

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