[Mageia-discuss] A name for mageia-app-db (round 2)

Sat Feb 12 23:46:17 CET 2011

Thanks for all the proposals. I'm starting a new thread to try to give a 
+certain (vague) direction to the research.
+
+Among all the proposals, those who retained my attention were, for now :
+- Discovery (better than "Find Out"), but was the name of one of Mandriva's 
+products. However, mixed with another term, could work.
+- share, even if as a single word it probably won't work, too generic I think 
+and likely in use somewhere already. But the concept could be refined (a 2 
+words name with share in it ? A synonym ?)
+- agora, or rather "applications agora" or "AppAgora", but to me agora would 
+be the perfect word for a forum. However, with the App prefix or any other word 
+sticked or next to it, it may work.
+- software portal : simple, easy to understand (no need to explain the 
+meaning), maybe we're looking for too complicated. However, it's already taken 
+by linux mint (which proves it was not a so bad name) : 
+http://www.linuxmint.com/software/
+- Kelema : means nothing to most people, even if it does have a meaning, but 
+do we need a name that means something to people ? We could just forge one, 
+but that's not easy.
+- mageiatheque : I really like this one, but I'm not sure I can use it for a 
+piece of software that will work also with packages or other distributions, 
+and I'm also not sure it will be understood (the -theque suffix may not be well 
+known enough).
+- packalog, even if I would avoid a name with "package" in it.
+
+Here are also some ideas, I'm throwing them to the list to see if they inspire 
+someone :)
+
+- Handshake (or it translation in another language if that makes a great 
+word), which symbolises the contact between packagers and users
+
+- Forest (or other terms with similar meanings, in english or other languages) 
+: I just like trees, and if you see each application as a tree, then mageia-
+app-db could be a forest :). Any good idea around nature concepts (especially 
+vegetation) could really please me.
+
+- Abondance (french word for abundance), because there are plenty of 
+applications available. In the same spirit : "cornucopia" / "horn of plenty".
+
+And my preferred for now :
+
+- Applications Galaxy (where each application is a small star in the galaxy). 
+I have a good feeling for galaxy.mageia.org
+
+
+I'm sure there are plenty of unexplored names just waiting for us :)
+
+Best regards
+
+Samuel Verschelde
+