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(a)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.