Re: Changing the name of GUADEC

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

(A little off-topic...)

On 9/6/05, Dave Neary <dneary free fr> wrote:
> > And lets face it, the only reason we find GConf a good option is because
> > of the inside joke with the name. For anyone not a core member of the
> > community that is lost.
> 
> I like GConf for that reason, and because it's got Conf in it, and it's
> a better abbreviation for 'the GNOME Conference' than GNOMECon or
> GNOME-Con(which has too many capitals) and GnomeCon violates the
> religious doctrine on GNOME capitalisation.

That 'doctrine' ought to be violated as a matter of principal.  5
letters of all caps just sucks.  I intentionally write it as Gnome,
and will continue to do so.  (And if anyone wants to complain about me
doing so, feel free to let /dev/null know)  :-)