Image Management Engine Name Suggestions

Steve Linabery slinaber at redhat.com
Fri Aug 17 16:26:20 UTC 2012


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?
> 
> 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."
> 
> Or if you wanted to be off the wall you could just call it "Winged
> Monkey" and let people ask.
> 
> 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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