Re: Changing the name of GUADEC

[Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>]

7th is  GU7DEC of course (with a euro-style 'bar' in the 7)
and 8th is 8uadec
then 9uadec
10th GU0xaDEC


(as I suggested around 2001... ;-) )

or

gU+ADEC for the Asian conference since U+adec is Hangul syllable gyum



Bill

Danilo Šegan wrote:

> Yesterday at 22:13, David Neary wrote:
>
>  
>
> > I would like to propose changing the name of GUADEC. There are many
> > reasons to do this, here are 5:
> >    
>
> Another, actually most important reason:
>
> — 3rd was GUAD3C
> — 4th was GU4DEC
> — 5th was GVADEC
> — 6th was 6UADEC
>
> And what would 7th be?
>
> I suggest something with at least "T" and "B" in the name, so we can
> have "T" replaced with "7" and "B" replaced with "8" (think of the
> future!).  Maybe even a small "g" to be ready for the 9th occurence
> as well, and IO for the 10th installement.
>
> So, the name should be:
>
> gBIOT: Gnome Badass International Olympic Team
> gBIOT: Gnome Broad Input/Output Topics (Input-Output is another
>        phrase for "Conference", or so I define it to be :)
>
> (and gBIO7, g8IOT, 9BIOT and gB10T accordingly)
>
>
> Now really, I don't mind GConf (it's nice and sleek, modern and
> short), but I think GUADEC is nice and fun name that beats it out
> any day (when you pronounce it, it sounds like duck-speak "gwadeck" :),
> simply because GConf is gconfd+~/.gconf/ in my mind.
>
> If we were KDE, I'd vote for replacing aKademy with "Konference"—so,
> it should be Gnomference for us ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Danilo
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