Naming the future.

[Mike O'Donohue]

I also love this idea but unfortunately I'm neither linguistically 
gifted nor terribly witty.  Come on people get your thinking caps on!

Mike


At 16:10 12/01/2013, barry b wrote:


>Personalty I think supreme is a bit of a too well know word.
>Secondly although i really like your idea on the name sionnach 
>because of the Irish translation, i don't know if it would be accepted.
>when you google the name Sionnach you get how to pronounce the name. 
>However i don't think we should rule it out because it completely 
>unheard of (especially outside Ireland.)
>I really like the fox idea. Supreme a bit to basic-IMO.
>Good suggestion.
>
>Here is a book of S adjectives. (Unfortunately without their meaning.)
>http://scribblenauts.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Adjectives-S
>
>Chears
>Barry (forgot to sign the last one)
>Happy 2013
>
>
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>Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:27:42 +0000
>Subject: Re: Naming the future.
>From: kavanagh.tommy at gmail.com
>To: bpb101.1 at hotmail.com
>CC: ubuntu-ie at lists.ubuntu.com
>
>Hmnnnnnnn........
>
>Good idea.... Yes go for it. It will cost nothing to have an idea.
>
>The letter S you say, to get the ball rolling; how about something like;
>
>Supreme Sionnach
>
>Sionnach being Irish for fox, or does that break the rules? You 
>could work out some concocted reasoning after if needed.... The fox 
>being cleverest of animals (ok, maybe folklore based), fast and with 
>stealth, wild and free (meh..., wild?), cunning in its approach, and 
>naturally has a colour scheme which would fit very nicely with the 
>default Ubuntu scheme :)  Might have a related Mozilla vibe there 
>too if there's no bad history there that I'm not familiar with.
>
>So, Just a thought to get the ball rolling,
>
>Oh, and by the way, hi everyone and best to you all for 2013 :)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tommy
>
>
>On Saturday, January 12, 2013, barry b wrote:
>
>Hey folks,
>
>As we all know, Ubuntu is code-named around 6 months in advance of 
>every released at the time of the previous release. Ubuntu is know 
>for its outrages names of a Adjective followed by an animal.
>Suggestions are allowed by anybody with a standard Ubuntu account. 
>Just submit idea to 
><https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames>https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames?. 
>
>
>I often see a name and it would have suggested by a group beside it 
>(here you can also explain what the animal and the adjective are)
>I propose we put our minds together. Send in a few suggestion to the 
>mailing list and decide on 1 for the 13.10 release. The Letter is S 
>this time around.
>A small vote could take place on the irc chat on the 6th of 
>February. It would be something to add to the chat. And something to 
>put down for re-approval ( hope we decide to go ahead with re-approval )
>  It would be a great boast for the team if we were , in the 
> unlikely case, chosen, And surly something to be proud of.(Even if 
> we get half a name in, Often Mark mixes suggestions)
>Early February will have to be the latest time for this name to be 
>prepossessed - I don't know when they decide but you are allowed 
>suggest names years in advance.
>
>I would suggest that an Irish animal could be a good idea , but 
>crazy animals begin with S might be hard to find , but  try Irish 
>animals if we can, however - just an idea.
>We also need a mad Adjective with the letter S
>
>We could also mix ideas and come up with one, Over the mailing list 
>and on the night of the irc (last minute work)
>
>
>I Don't know if this has been suggest in the past and if so its 
>success, but however.
>
>
>Any feedback on the idea?
>
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