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Please, note, that I'm planning today to setup first round of name voting
to select top N options and trash bad options. It'll be done after the IRC
team meeting.


On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Sergey Lukjanov <slukjanov at mirantis.com>wrote:

> There are already some names proposed in the etherpad, so, I'll setup a
> voting to choose top N options and discuss them detailed. The voting will
> be started after the next IRC team meeting next week, Feb 13.
>
> Thanks.
>
> P.S. Looking forward for new name proposals :)
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Sergey Lukjanov <slukjanov at mirantis.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> As part of preparations for graduation from incubation [0], I've
>> contacted OpenStack Foundation Marketing team to ensure that everything is
>> ok with our program and project names from their point of view. Thanks for
>> Lauren Sell for providing info.
>>
>> Thetus Corporation already use 'Savanna' as the name for one of their
>> technologies [1]. Thetus doesn't actually hold any registered trademark for
>> 'Savanna', but they have common-law rights to the mark because they have
>> established use and marketed it since 2010, so, in case if we applied for a
>> trademark, they could certainly challenge us and win. So, the answer from
>> marketing team was that it's a pretty high risk to continue using our
>> lovely name... The most sad part is that I couldn't google their site using
>> words savanna, hadoop, cloud and etc.
>>
>> Let's move on to the new name selection process. I'm proposing one or two
>> weeks for brainstorming and sharing your thoughts about the project name
>> depending on number of suitable options, then I'll probably setup the small
>> voting to select the best option.
>>
>> I've created an etherpad [2] for discussing new name options, so, the
>> process is send your options to this thread and then go to the etherpad [2]
>> to discuss them. Please, don't forget to google your options to avoid one
>> more renaming in future ;)
>>
>> Thanks, looking forward for you thoughts.
>>
>> [0]
>> http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/incubation-integration-requirements- "Project should have engaged with marketing team to check suitable
>> official name"
>> [1] http://www.thetus.com/savanna
>> [2] https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/savanna-renaming
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely yours,
>> Sergey Lukjanov
>> Savanna Technical Lead
>> Mirantis Inc.
>>
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>
>
> --
> Sincerely yours,
> Sergey Lukjanov
> Savanna Technical Lead
> Mirantis Inc.
>



-- 
Sincerely yours,
Sergey Lukjanov
Savanna Technical Lead
Mirantis Inc.
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