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Just make sure more information is awarded by all, here's some discussion
on irc: openstack-tc during this mail is send.
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2019-08-11.log.html#t2019-08-11T16:37:03

On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 2:07 AM Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:

> On 2019-08-11 10:30:32 -0700 (-0700), James E. Blair wrote:
> [...]
> > I still do believe that it meets all of the criteria.  In particular, it
> > meets this:
> >
> > * The name must refer to the physical or human geography of the region
> >   encompassing the location of the OpenStack summit for the
> >   corresponding release.
> >
> > It is short for "University of Shanghai for Science and Technology",
> > which is a place in Shanghai.  Here is their website:
> > http://en.usst.edu.cn/
> [...]
>
> This got discussed after last week's TC meeting during Thursday
> office hours, and I'm sorry I didn't think to give you a heads-up
> when the topic arose:
>
>
> http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/irclogs/%23openstack-tc/%23openstack-tc.2019-08-08.log.html#t2019-08-08T14:59:01
>
> One of the objections raised was that "University" in the name
> "University of Shanghai for Science and Technology" was a general
> class of place or feature and not a particular place or feature. But
> as you pointed out in IRC a while back (and which I should have
> remembered), there is precedent with the Pike cycle name:
>
>     Pike (the Massachusetts Turnpike, also the Mass Pike...)
>
>
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Release_Naming/P_Proposals#Proposed_Names
>
> Another objection raised is that "OpenStack University" was the old
> name for what we now call the OpenStack Upstream Institute and that
> it could lead to name confusion if chosen. A search of the Web for
> that name last week turned up only two occurrences for me on the
> first page of results, both of which were lingering references in
> our wiki which I immediately corrected, so I don't think that
> argument holds.
>
> Then there was the suggestion that "University" might somehow be a
> trademark risk, though in my opinion that's why we have the OSF vet
> the preliminary winning results after the community ranks them (so
> that the TC doesn't need to concern itself with trademark issues).
>
> It was also pointed out that each time we have a poll with a mix of
> English and non-English names/words, an English name inevitably
> wins. Since this concern isn't backed up by the documented
> process[*] we're ostensibly following, I'm not really sure how to
> address it.
>
> Ultimately I was unable to convince my colleagues on the TC that
> "University" was a qualifying name, and so it was handled as a
> possible exception to the normal rules which, following a poll of
> most TC members, was decided would not be granted.
>
> [*] https://governance.openstack.org/tc/reference/release-naming.html
> --
> Jeremy Stanley
>


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