MOTU Meeting reminder

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Fri Apr 11 13:05:36 BST 2008


On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:31:22 +0200 Daniel Holbach 
<daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> wrote:
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>Scott Kitterman schrieb:
>> Use, nomenclature, and requirements for the Universe Hackers (Ubuntu 
>> Contributing Developers) team
>> 
>> Please make the name something that I can sit in a business meeting and 
say to 
>> someone, "Oh, well if you want to do that, you have to join the ________ 
team 
>> and ...".
>
>I agree to the extent that it shouldn't be completely ridiculous, on the
>other hand, let's not loose our good humour in the free software world...
>
>We have countless examples of funny names that cause raise eyebrows
>among people not intimately familiar with the world we live in:
>
> - libbonobo? libsexy? liboobs?
> - GNOME, GNU?
> - Ubuntu ("are you sure you didn't forget a 'U' in the spelling?")
> - "Seed Management"? MoM and DaD?
>
>and last but not least
>
> - MOTU ("Really? Masters of the Universe?")
>
Agreed, but please no monkeys.

Scott K



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