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On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 07:58:59PM -0400, Paul Belanger wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> It is time again to cast your vote for the naming of the S Release. This time
> is little different as we've decided to use a public polling option over per
> user private URLs for voting. This means, everybody should proceed to use the
> following URL to cast their vote:
> 
>   https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/vote.pl?id=E_40b95cb2be3fcdf1&akey=8cfdc1f5df5fe4d3
> 
> Because this is a public poll, results will currently be only viewable by myself
> until the poll closes. Once closed, I'll post the URL making the results
> viewable to everybody. This was done to avoid everybody seeing the results while
> the public poll is running.
> 
> The poll will officially end on 2018-03-21 23:59:59[1], and results will be
> posted shortly after.
> 
> [1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/release-naming.rst
> ---
> 
> According to the Release Naming Process, this poll is to determine the
> community preferences for the name of the R release of OpenStack. It is
> possible that the top choice is not viable for legal reasons, so the second or
> later community preference could wind up being the name.
> 
> Release Name Criteria
> 
> Each release name must start with the letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet
> following the initial letter of the previous release, starting with the
> initial release of "Austin". After "Z", the next name should start with
> "A" again.
> 
> The name must be composed only of the 26 characters of the ISO basic Latin
> alphabet. Names which can be transliterated into this character set are also
> acceptable.
> 
> The name must refer to the physical or human geography of the region
> encompassing the location of the OpenStack design summit for the
> corresponding release. The exact boundaries of the geographic region under
> consideration must be declared before the opening of nominations, as part of
> the initiation of the selection process.
> 
> The name must be a single word with a maximum of 10 characters. Words that
> describe the feature should not be included, so "Foo City" or "Foo Peak"
> would both be eligible as "Foo".
> 
> Names which do not meet these criteria but otherwise sound really cool
> should be added to a separate section of the wiki page and the TC may make
> an exception for one or more of them to be considered in the Condorcet poll.
> The naming official is responsible for presenting the list of exceptional
> names for consideration to the TC before the poll opens.
> 
> Exact Geographic Region
> 
> The Geographic Region from where names for the S release will come is Berlin
> 
> Proposed Names
> 
> Spree (a river that flows through the Saxony, Brandenburg and Berlin states of
>        Germany)
> 
> SBahn (The Berlin S-Bahn is a rapid transit system in and around Berlin)
> 
> Spandau (One of the twelve boroughs of Berlin)
> 
> Stein (Steinstraße or "Stein Street" in Berlin, can also be conveniently
>        abbreviated as 🍺)
> 
> Steglitz (a locality in the South Western part of the city)
> 
> Springer (Berlin is headquarters of Axel Springer publishing house)
> 
> Staaken (a locality within the Spandau borough)
> 
> Schoenholz (A zone in the Niederschönhausen district of Berlin)
> 
> Shellhaus (A famous office building)
> 
> Suedkreuz ("southern cross" - a railway station in Tempelhof-Schöneberg)
> 
> Schiller (A park in the Mitte borough)
> 
> Saatwinkel (The name of a super tiny beach, and its surrounding neighborhood)
>            (The adjective form, Saatwinkler is also a really cool bridge but
>            that form is too long)
> 
> Sonne (Sonnenallee is the name of a large street in Berlin crossing the former
>        wall, also translates as "sun")
> 
> Savigny (Common place in City-West)
> 
> Soorstreet (Street in Berlin restrict Charlottenburg)
> 
> Solar (Skybar in Berlin)
> 
> See (Seestraße or "See Street" in Berlin)
> 
A friendly reminder, the naming poll will be closing later today (2018-03-21
23:59:59 UTC). If you haven't done so, please take a moment to vote.

Thanks,
Paul