Hi Matthew, Been pondering that for a while too, my current thinking though is that if we are to switch it we should maybe choose a more 'brand' style name as opposed to a functional one. 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 :) Christian ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:01:20 PM > Subject: Question for the WG (and SIG) -- do you want to keep "Workstation"? > > I'm intentionally breaking the threading here since I think it's a top-level > topic. The following is from Christian: > > > 1. The name is not important here, we might as well have called the > > product working group the Desktop Working Group or the Client Working > > Group. The name workstation was chosen mostly to emphasize that technical > > users are of importance to us. So please do not get hung up on the name. > > I agree, and also, I think the direction has gone a little differently from > what we were originally thinking about with the "Workstation" name. As I > noted elsewhere, things going differently from my first thoughts is the > process working. :) > > If there's going to be a name change, I think it's probably better somewhat > sooner rather than later. It might be a good idea to talk with Fedora > Marketing too. So... yeah. Open floor on this idea. Does "workstation" > really convey what this product will be all about? What would be better? > Plain old "Fedora Desktop" is still on the table, for sure. "Fedora Bob" is > probably a bad idea.... > > > -- > Matthew Miller -- Fedora Project -- <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > -- > desktop mailing list > desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
