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bye, NicCoThe Road to the Foundation, episode 2: Vote for the new name of the distrubution!
Posted on July 5, 2012 by Charles Schulz
We have been busy behind the scenes determining the necessary processes and resouces needed for the future foundation. This is an ongoing work, but of course it’s not a closed process; it’s just that the group who met in Paris has a lot of homework to do before we can present a clear picture to the community, so that the community might be in charge of the foundation and of its own destiny. Today is the beginning of a new step in this direction.
Starting now, we have opened a poll that will let you pick the name of the future distribution (and its foundation). In the future, Mandriva as a brand name will remain the name of the company (Mandriva S.A.) but the community itself will have a different name and a different branding, although it is also possible that the brand and the name will keep a tight connection with Mandriva. We had to prepare the available choices; we came up with some names during the meeting in Paris, we also listened to some ideas expressed on the Foundation mailing list. Last but not least we left the possibility to send us suggestions for other names. If a suggestion appears to be really popular we will consider it provided it’s available of course.
How does the vote work? We are going to make it last for a full week. The poll starts now, at the present publication, and closes on Thursday the 12th of July at 13:30 CET (Paris time). It is available on this page but you can access it here as well. You have to vote for one name only, although you can of course send us suggestions at the email address shown in the poll. We have tried to come up with different kinds of names, from names sticking very much to Mandriva, to names that are reminiscent of it without sounding quite like Mandriva, and even names that are completely different. Everybody can vote and we hope the whole community will be able to express yourself!