Image Management Engine Name Suggestions

Martyn Taylor mtaylor at redhat.com
Fri Aug 17 16:42:47 UTC 2012


On 08/17/2012 05:26 PM, Steve Linabery wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 12:19:26PM -0400, Hugh Brock wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 04:55:24PM +0100, Martyn Taylor wrote:
>>> Gentlemen,
>>>
>>> To follow rubygem tradition we have decided to come up with a more
>>> catchy name for Image Management Engine.  Because, well, Image
>>> Management Engine is pretty dull.  This task is harder than it
>>> seems.  It turns out the creative side of my mind has been locked
>>> away in a little box.  I'm hoping one day I'll find the key, but
>>> right now it's looking grim so I'm relying on you guys for
>>> inspiration :)
>>>
>>> We're open to all suggestions wackier the more memorable :).  One
>>> thing we would like is do is keep in with the Cloud or Conductor
>>> theme.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>> Image management engine is the API for Factory and the data structures
>> associated with images and templates, right?
yeah thats right.
>>
>> Factory wraps Oz. Oz is (I believe) so named because it operates in an
>> imaginary land (the virtual machine). You get to Oz via Kansas. So, you
>> could call the thing Kansas... or maybe more poetically, "tornado" or
>> "whirlwind."

I like your thought process here.  Unfortunately:

whirlwind, tornado, hurricane are api-twister (which might get confused 
with twister) are all taken.

cyclone is free though.

Also sticking to the wind theme.  How about wind tunnel?  Or turbo-fan :P
>>
>> Or if you wanted to be off the wall you could just call it "Winged
>> Monkey" and let people ask.
Yeah, wacky ones are memorable and I can envisage some pretty cool logos 
off of "winged monkey" ;)
>> I thought of "Emerald City" too, but I'm not sure exactly how that
>> relates, other than that the Emerald City has gates, and the IME is kind
>> of a gateway to Oz in a sense.
>>
>> This is such fun...
>>
>> --H
>>
>> -- 
>> == Hugh Brock, hbrock at redhat.com                                   ==
>> == Engineering Manager, Cloud BU                                   ==
>> == Aeolus Project: Manage virtual infrastructure across clouds.    ==
>> == http://aeolusproject.org                                        ==
>>
>> "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m
>> not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
>> --Robert McCloskey
> twister and cyclone are other nice names for tornadoes.





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