[CoLoCo] New Name

[Mitch Mahan]

I vote for not worrying.


Everyone I've talked to seem to think the abbreviation a whimsical amusement
rather than a negative.

Among computer geeks that know the team it's a "tongue in cheek" oh. you
belong in the CULT to?

 

Among non-computer geeks it's just Colorado Ubuntu Linux Team. only the
paranoid will think it's anything other than coincidence and that it's
negative.

Frankly, I see it as even more of a positive then. I deal with enough
paranoid people at work; might as well leave them out of the cool kids club.

 

;)

Mitch

 

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From: ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-us-co-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Jim Hutchinson
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:42 AM
To: Ubuntu Colorado Local Community Team
Subject: Re: [CoLoCo] New Name

 

 

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:12 PM, NICK VERBECK <nerdynick at gmail.com> wrote:

I have been seeing a lot of talk about changing the Groups name. If
everyone is in consensuses with changing it from "Ubuntu Colorado
Local Group" to "Colorado Ubuntu Linux Team" I will go ahead and make
the changes on the website, and we can from here out use that as the
final name.


Might as well chime in on this. As I understand it, Ubuntu has loco teams.
Loco stands for local community. So we are officially the Colorado Local
Community Team. This was shortened to CoLoCo as a fun and easy to say
nickname. People seemed to want the words Ubuntu and Linux in there and the
only way it sounds good is to say "Colorado Ubuntu Linux Team". That was put
forward a while ago and someone noted that the acronym came out to CULT. I
personally didn't have an issue with that but I understand some of the
concerns. However, if you don't abbreviate it then it's not an issue.

That being said, I think we need to stay with the official guidelines. If
I'm misunderstanding them then please educate me. If not, then we should
stay officially the Colorado Local Community Team. However, the word Ubuntu
doesn't fit there anywhere and when talking to none Ubuntu people our name
is rather meaningless. I suppose a compromise could be "Colorado Ubuntu
Team" as someone suggested. Or we just don't worry about the cult acronym.



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