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John Wong's idea is a good one. Including the Hong Kong Openstack community
in the naming process would be very helpful in attracting developers.

I like Ichang ("EE-chang"). It is short and the name of a place at the
summit.

John Hebert


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:59 PM, John Wong <gokoproject at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Interesting. I came from HK when I was kid. I will give a good thought on
> this tomorrow.
>
> BUT BUT first impression on the list: drop the idea of "imperial", please.
> If the reason behind the suggestion has to do with British Empire, I
> strongly advised you drop that suggestion because that description is
> highly political. There are people in HK against the whole power shift
> from Britain to China since 1997. And submit usually draw hundreds, if not,
> thousands of developers across the world together. This will be a big event.
>
> If we go with street name I know Ichang Street (宜昌街), Inverness Road
> (延文禮士道) are good candidate. I submitted my edit:
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Release_Naming#.22I.22_release_cycle_naming
>
> I haven't crossed out Imperial on the WiKi, but the community should vote
> on removal though.
> Also, why don't we send this to the CS students enrolled in
> HK's universities? This is a big event - driving potentially thousands
> developers to HK? That's really the first time I can recall as a HK child.
>
> John
>
>
> On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Wang, Shane <shane.wang at intel.com> wrote:
>
>> What about Ili, which is a prefecture name in Xinjiang in China:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ili_Kazakh_Autonomous_Prefecture
>>
>> --
>> Shane
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Openstack
>> > [mailto:openstack-bounces+shane.wang=intel.com at lists.launchpad.net] On
>> > Behalf Of Thierry Carrez
>> > Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 10:02 PM
>> > To: openstack at lists.launchpad.net
>> > Subject: [Openstack] I release naming (calling APAC community)
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > As you may know, we name our release cycles after cities or counties in
>> > the state/country where the corresponding design summit is held.
>> >
>> > That creates an interesting problem for the "I" release, since there is
>> > no word starting with "i" in classic transliteration of Chinese words...
>> > so not so many candidates. We'll have to get a bit creative and be
>> > willing to bend the rules a little.
>> >
>> > Feel free to suggest names on this thread, or on the wiki page at:
>> > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Release_Naming
>> >
>> > I am especially interested by the input of our APAC community in general
>> > and our Chinese members in particular, which are probably the best to
>> > let us know which transliteration crime could be acceptable or which
>> > name they would particularly like.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > --
>> > Thierry Carrez (ttx)
>> > Release Manager, OpenStack
>> >
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