Stradivari.....  Sounds like a violin, could do a musical theme, violins, an orchestra, stylized notes ect. in.sourada@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Design-team] F12 names and themeability To: "Fedora Design Team" design-team@lists.fedoraproject.org Received: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009, 1:58 AM

On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 08:24 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:

Hi Design Team.

As you're probably aware we are working early on the F12 naming process, to provide the Fedora Design team plenty of time for theming the next release, as requested.  The community submitted names to the wiki page, and then the Board did a vote on the community names that passed the initial review process.  The top names will be sent to Legal for final approval and then turned into a ballot on which the whole community will vote.  Therefore, the top name on the Board's list may not end up winning the final vote.  I'm only going to list the top 16 or so names here to make things easier for this team -- the idea is that I will send about 12 names to Legal, and hope for at least 8 back that pass legal review.

I would ask that people remember that themes can be very broad and simply "inspired" by a name.  For example, "Heisenberg" is the name of a scientist who postulated the Uncertainty Principle (that measuring certain subatomic events actually changed the nature of those events).  So that name lends itself to things like atoms/molecules, or other interconnectedness that could represent community, and building structure from small things.

Before I send the list on to Legal, I would like the Design team to look at these names and give me some indication of their themeability.

I think the easiest way to accomplish this is for anyone participating in the Design team to indicate whether they think a name *can* be themed, either with "+1" and/or an idea for how to do it.  If there are any names for which no one indicates themeability, I will consider leaving those off the list for final review by Legal.

Josh Boyer, the Board, and I are performing this process early -- before Fedora 11 is even released! -- because the Design Team has asked for that repeatedly.  Therefore the sooner you can get me your input, the sooner I can send these on to Legal, and set up a community voting process for the actual F12 name.  I would really like it if I can get people's input in the next 24-48 hours!

The list:

Quetzalcoatl

+1 should be probably possible to do some simplified or abstract-ized version of this deity.

Constantine

unsure. I can imagine connection to Constantinople but I don't have in mind any concrete idea that would work good as default wallpaper

Hubble

+1 either stylised satellites or deep-space like view should be plausible

Umbria

not sure what this is, wikipedia says it's in Italy, so we could maybe go with some landscape images, but seeing how we failed with that for F11...

Hippokoon

unsure.

Heisenberg

+1

Goliath Rugosa Adamastor Orville Chilon Wallace Elvis Cimrman Alexander Stradivari

These are all names of (imaginary) people, it seems... For Cimrman you can go with probably anything (since he invented everything...) also it appeals to me because I am Czech... Stradivari would be probably nice for taking some parts of violins and building the themes around it, similar for Elvis (though with guitar or just music in general). Not sure about the rest... Maybe others would have some ideas on these.

Martin

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