[GnomeMeeting-list] Re:Name Change?

["David C. Days" <happyslayer direcway com>]

On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 12:00, gnomemeeting-list-request gnome org wrote:


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> >Now, I'm more and more worried about GnomeMeeting's name because :
> >
> >- people associate GnomeMeeting to Netmeeting, and Netmeeting is dead.
> >Moreover, GnomeMeeting is more than just Netmeeting and will also
> >support SIP in the future. So people think GnomeMeeting is a dead
> >application just because the new "hype" is Skype or MSN Messenger even
> >if GnomeMeeting has the same features...
> >  
> >
> Problem is that today people says "my friends have messenger(skype), I 
> have to use messenger (skype)" What is SIP or H323 oe IAX  they don't 
> know. But telling them that you can call with SIP UA or H323 UA, they 
> start to think different. So I think problem is not only GM but all UA's 
> SIP, H323 and IAX.
> 
> >- people think a webcam is necessary to use GnomeMeeting, they think
> >"Skype is for people who want to do voicechat, and GnomeMeeting is for
> >people who want to videochat". But that's wrong, GnomeMeeting has just
> >more features. I think that the confusion is due to the Netmeeting name.
> >
> >- people don't see GnomeMeeting as a Voice Over IP application, or as an
> >IP telephony application. I don't know why...
> >  
> >
> First of all, they are using Windows (as far as I know, there is no 
> audio client compliant of skype or messenger , doesn't matter which OS). 
> So if GnomeMetting doesn't run under windows, they are not interested.
> 
> >- people think they absolutely need GNOME to run GnomeMeeting, when it
> >is not true anymore. If we have a WIN32 version, perhaps the "GNOME"
> >part should be removed from the name.
> >  
> >
> That's true. Just remember how long people using other manager as GNOME 
> had to wait till they got ringing sound ;-)
> 
> >What do you think? Do you have propositions for a new name?
> >  
> >
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How about "OpenMeeting"?  I know "Open-anything" is kind of a buzzword,
but it would go a ways towards disassociating it from Gnome and
stressing the opensource nature...

Example:  "OpenMeeting-- The network conferencing tool compatible with
multiple  H.323 clients**"  and then list some compatible
clients--position in list could be determined by popularity of that
other client.

**Statement not evaluated by the FCC or my lawyer--don't sue!  :-) 

(Of course, "buzzy-ness" leads to other possibilities:
	--Open*Meeting  (* for any meeting product...the geeks would get it...)
	--StarMeeting (same thing for the non-geeks...), but Sun might have a
cow...
	--Open Source H.323 Interclient Teleconferencing System...never mind,
the acronym doesn't work out...)
	--NetCAVV--Network Conferencing and Video/Voice System..
	--ODIN Conferencing -- OpenSource Data-Interchange Network
Conferencing  (yeah, it's big on the Norse mythology, but people seem to
like that...)

	Just a few ideas off the top of my head...)