Image Management Engine Name Suggestions

jvlcek jvlcek at redhat.com
Fri Aug 17 19:55:25 UTC 2012


On 08/17/2012 12:19 PM, 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 
>

"Tenacious"

The yacht which carried it's crew, skipped by Ted Turner,
to win the infamous 1979 Fastnet race, in storm laden
seas where 15 participants had perished.

Tenacious: The Engine behind the winner in the midsts of
a whirlwind!

Any one notice I have sailing on the  mind... :)

Joe



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