[NTLUG:Discuss] Fair Rename
Gilbert Morrow
gkfmorrow at gmail.com
Sat Apr 30 02:56:09 CDT 2011
I don't know, hitchhiker sounds like a bum, loafer, really want Linux
associated with that ? I mean a guy with another head coming off his
shoulder . Yes I watched PBS .
Sent from the original Droid.
On Apr 30, 2011 2:19 AM, "Leroy Tennison" <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net>
wrote:
> On 04/29/2011 09:28 PM, Robert Pearson wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Mike Hart<just_mike_y at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> Other things to brainstorm in besides the word "LINUX" all of which are
much less specific to the kernel:
>>>
>>>
>>> GNU
>>> FSF (Free Software Foundation)
>>> Tux (the penguin)
>>> CopyLeft -- the backward (C)
>>>
>>> I like something like "NTPCUG Presents the DFW Planet GNU Free Software
Conference", with a picture of Tux sitting on a copyleft sphere, and
including something similar to but NOT the miniscule window in the lower
left, and something like the fruit Eve ate in the lower right... portraying
that they are sort of about to get rolled over.
>>>
>>> "Planet GNU" is a website tho, ( http://planet.gnu.org/ ) so before
using the exact name I suggest, we'd need to clear it with those guys. For
'freedom' folks, I've seen some very silly stuff happen when names overlap a
little.
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>> Brainstorming, brainstorming, brainstorming...
>> Maybe---
>> "Hitchhiker's Guide to Freeware"
>> "Hitchhiker's Freeware Fest"
>> "Hitchhiker's Freeware Happening"
>> "DIY Hitchhiker Freeware"
>>
>> There is a theme here somewhere in al these email suggestions. We just
>> need to find it...
>>
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>
> "Hitchhiker's Guide to Freeware" - I like it, it is catchy and
communicates what I believe we want to without any of the negatives
(conference, symposium, rally, etc. as mentioned earlier).
>
> "Hitchhiker's Guide to Freeware"
>
> "Hitchhiker's Guide to Freeware"
>
>
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