Re: Branding of GNOME-hosted Tomboy Online

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:17 AM, Dave Neary <dneary gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Sandy,
>
> Sandy Armstrong wrote:
>> For a long time, I've been referring to this hypothetical service as
>> "Tomboy Online".  I have registered the domains tomboy-online.com and
>> tomboy-online.org in anticipation of this deployment.
>>
>> Before we go ahead with using that domain name and branding, I'd like
>> to make sure there is no objection from folks on this list.
>
> Just to be clear on the origin of your apprehension - clearly you're
> anticipating controversy of some sort.

Not controversy, per se.  But for all I know the marketing team has a
Grand Unified Plan (tm) for branding GNOME web services, and would
therefore object to having a "competing" brand hosted on GNOME
servers.

> Are you worried about a backlash this because Tomboy's not the only app
> to sync notes with Snowy? Or because it's a Mono app?

No, I've thought about the Tomboy branding a bit, and don't see it as
restricted to one GTK# app.  We refer to the REST API implemented by
Snowy (and Ubuntu One, and Midgard2) as "Tomboy Web", even though it
could be implemented by any server and consumed by any client.  I've
considered letting the Tomdroid and Conboy projects use the Tomboy
name as well, to enhance their association with the Tomboy project.

And so, it just seems natural to me to call the hosted web app "Tomboy
Online", tying all of these things together.

> I'd have no objection to "Tomboy Online" personally. "GNOME Notes" would
> also float my boat.

And I have no objection to that, either.  online.gnome.org/notes would
work fine for me.

Sandy