Re: Please sit down before reading this, and take a deep breath.
- From: "Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com>
- To: "John Williams" <jwilliams business otago ac nz>
- Cc: marketing list <marketing-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Please sit down before reading this, and take a deep breath.
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:47:11 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 18:03 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
Without straying too far from the topic - What is GNOME ? Or as someone
recently asked me in one session for college kids (WTF is guh-nome)
With respect to the recent discussion on slogans and general discussion
of about "Real Marketing", is it time for a name change?
What is GNOME? We seem to fond of asking that question these days. The
answer is simple: it is the GNU Network Object Model Environment.
That is never ever the answer, and hasn't been for a long time. If it's
anywhere on our web sites, it should be removed.
What the fuck?!? I (and I presume everyone else reading this too ) find
those words meaningful. What about the end-users?
And what associations (hello Murray!) does the word "gnome" conjure up?
Do we want that baggage? (Does this apply only to native English
speakers?)
I am not suggesting that we need a name change, I am simply wondering if
anyone else has contemplated these issues?
Murray Cumming
murrayc murrayc com
www.murrayc.com
www.openismus.com
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