[Kamailio-Users] [Kamailio-Devel] poll: project name

[Jerome Martin]

Selecting from the proposed list, I would pick 4) I do not like it.
However, I do not really care, just feel that it is a bad marketing
name, not carrying any meaning and hard to remember for people.

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 13:50 +0300, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> some people expressed inconveniences regarding the new name, so we would 
> like to get your opinion about, therefore this is a poll that will get 
> us to a decision. Here is the question:
> 
> Do you like the name "Kamailio"?
> 1) Yes, I love it. Please keep it.
> 2) It is OK.
> 3) I do not mind the name at all
> 4) I do not like it
> 5) I hate the name and we should change it
> 
> There is no need of explanations, as it is up to personal taste and 
> decision. Just vote by option.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel
> 
> PS. for those interested...
> 
> As short history about renaming story. On the 28th of March the board 
> was informed about issues with SER part of project name. You can easily 
> find who has the trademarks. On the 7th of April the board was informed 
> about an agreement for the deadline as of September 30, 2008 to use old 
> name. From there on, all old releases, documents, etc. can be referred 
> by the old name, but nothing new. Other few discussions about what 
> should/could be kept/changed followed and on 12th of May started the 
> discussion about the new name with two main direction, something 
> similar, to remind about old project or just something completely new, 
> to be used as brand name. Couple of proposals and discussions regarding 
> possible names followed up to 16th of July when was the deadline and the 
> start of vote. Majority was reached on 17th but it was required to have 
> opinions from all members of the board, last came from Bogdan, on the 
> 28th of July.
> 
> All discussions about migration were on the board mailing list. No 
> change were done to openser.org configuration, just the new domain with 
> kamailio in it was pointed to same server. Every step done was reported 
> to board, following a schedule discussed there. Another discussion was 
> about making the renaming and 1.4.0 release in same day. Being 
> practically impossible to do all the work in one day, it was decided to 
> do first the announcement about renaming. That happened on 28th when all 
> agreed with the new name.
> 
> As you can see, there was no 5 months of renaming duration. There was no 
> change in openser.org DNS configuration undertaken with/without the 
> knowledge of all board members. The new name domains were reserved when 
> majority was achieved, in any case; dns entries for new name were 
> pointed to old server shortly after booking the domains.
> 


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