From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: New year, new name! Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:12:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87egra60mo.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37080) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7mqr-0000RU-OP for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 10:12:22 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7mqn-0000kQ-6p for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 10:12:21 -0500 Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([2a01:474::1]:54520) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y7mqn-0000k2-0L for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2015 10:12:17 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902CA4399 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2015 16:12:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hera.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dU-V4H66l5Uu for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2015 16:12:15 +0100 (CET) Received: from pluto (reverse-83.fdn.fr [80.67.176.83]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 37D38A39 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2015 16:12:15 +0100 (CET) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Guix! As you know, we=E2=80=99ve been having this lengthy discussion about what to call the Guix-based standalone distro. RMS and others have argued that we can=E2=80=99t reasonably call it =E2=80=9Cthe GNU system=E2=80=9D, and m= any people have proposed alternative names. Long story short, I=E2=80=99m tempted to refer to the standalone distro as =E2=80=9CGuixotic=E2=80=9D. The name was proposed by RMS; it=E2=80=99s a p= lay on words that makes fun of criticisms that have depicted the GNU project as =E2=80=9Cquixotic=E2=80=9D. And it has the advantage of starting with =E2= =80=9CGuix=E2=80=9D. (The other name that I liked is =E2=80=9CGeist=E2=80=9D, which someone proposed = on IRC, but it lacks those traits.) As I see it, we would change the baseline on the Guix logo to, say, =E2=80=9Cdependable, hackable, liberating=E2=80=9D. And we could have an a= lternative logo with =E2=80=9Cotic=E2=80=9D appended=C2=B9, and with a different basel= ine, say, =E2=80=9CGNU=E2=80=99s reference distribution=E2=80=9D. (I count on Nikita or Felipe for this. ;= -)) Thoughts? Ludo=E2=80=99. =C2=B9 Bonus points to anyone who comes up with a stylized gnuish Quixote. = :-) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUqVhSAAoJEAkLEZk9muu1TEgP/RXCdyyKRG7OS8NTH4gIKvAD XqycF3njCVqXcTq4cZ7s/OwdaZxlCDtv5yPn6MXD+5y7WRShliQI/oWV7xbCKREq Q7fMhjKE3QMsbPEHJAMRF3HxrDuRpiRAG8IANSiyXsgiUt4jFgMveqcEqkJGHpQ9 pyPOMaGvuUD7XQgdTNZGskNcUsEsWIEF6dcTHqCtuYzb17HxZhxh2gmVnp+Temfi 5MKOIyP2M+yySAujnADEyYzzrNOc3IrneptRMHK8JsX/OlZrznrhZ12O83UlKVYU INinf0i3y0fp/M1hTRzVkMmV2iFmO5/q2jy0Jc0WrWS+LCu0ZR51N5fdyQt5sOuk 5ub+O1bXc7RwMpSq8vCMv4ILHNaSTX4laxAYY2UogfhbHn4ZCDJk6UIEr+r3aHGC +k3jMZ/lmDqvzRQWz+Jy8Kgwd6xsoIe2IQvWfCElScD+ev4OdPpbe+MyhfGj/bPs MG01ptePYci/4dx855OUj5zNQbkBF+pAKLePGrPId3ysQp9rWpjz/vA/auRCwOt/ Il7oE6UTBv94Vbt31+NjWVkV/r0YVkNsqxsikgGkiZ1IcoSeMZgMUiBEGVRRKnmX VOiwOJYhGBpTSPHjRBM42Yx/thr4Y/xcCraVyqU5BUtF+mlhXRmYLjvW1aeT1ZIS kO88OS8cc4KhPQipZMjR =d3Iu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--