What should we name this thing?

Posted by zacker on May 25, 2007 at 8:03pm

COD (Conference Organizing Distro) is really bland and lame. I think this project deserves a more interesting identity. We've brainstormed a bit at Chapter Three but haven't come up with a winner yet.

Here are a couple ideas so far:

Campcon - as in Camp + Conference... pretty 'bleh' but does get stuck in your head.
Captured Connections - read the product vision

Any ideas?

Comments

Shortname vs. distro/product name

Posted by boris mann on May 26, 2007 at 12:34am

Install profiles need distro_name_FUNCTION. So "cod" might not be so bad. Maybe a fish on a calendar :P? What's the universal symbol for a conference / event?

Hmm...you mention "agorae". What about Agora? Yeah, I like that...Agora: an online gathering place to organize your conference.

'Agora' -- duh

Posted by zacker on June 4, 2007 at 10:44pm

That's a good idea :) Top of my list....

However ....

Posted by C-Watootsi on June 5, 2007 at 8:16am

Looks like someone got to Agora first for an online meeting tool.

Some other name suggestions (about which you are fully allowed to rip the piss):

Docket
FreeCon
Hoister
Footsy
Junction
All-aboard
Shanty (as sung by pirates)

Ah well, I tried ...

Throwing it in the air as per...

Posted by niklp on May 27, 2007 at 2:11pm

Some suggestions for thought...

Confab, huddle, interchange, groupthink, powwow.

Best I can do on a Sunday morning.

Web Development in Nottingham, UK by Kineta Systems / Follow me on Twitter! @NikLP

more rubbish

Posted by niklp on June 6, 2007 at 2:26pm

Converge, convergence...? If you want to go "all Bay Area" about the matter - Convergr (!)

RoundTable? Urrrrrrrm...

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Hrmmm

Posted by mikey_p on June 6, 2007 at 3:58pm

Convergr...I like it. True it's trendy, but it would also be something that people remember, and it's a play off of a real word, so I doubt it's taken. I do like that it implies that it is something that converges other things. That makes it a verb. An action verb. Action verbs can make very good product names.

Oh wait...better check, does someone have a patent on removing vowels from the end of words (primarily 'e')?

Seriously though, +1 convergr for me.

-Mikey P

conferencing

Posted by techczech on July 27, 2007 at 7:07am

sorry, to be so late to the party, but as a not developer but frequent conference organizer (who will be trying this out soon), I'd prefer a very descriptive name that can be explained to co-workers something like 'conferencing' less so but why not: 'confer', 'confertastic', 'conferly', 'conferlicious', even the above mentioned 'confab'. But COD isn't a bad name. Or 'condruit' for 'confer and drupal it'.

Dominik Lukes
http://dominiklukes.net
@techczech

Corroboree/confluence

Posted by pmorse on August 10, 2007 at 12:51pm

Corroboree

corroboree |kəˌrɒbəri|
noun
an Australian Aboriginal dance ceremony that may take the form of a sacred ritual or an informal gathering.
• chiefly Austral. a party or other social gathering, esp. a lively one.
ORIGIN from Dharuk garaabara, denoting a style of dancing.

or Korroboree (just to be different) or Korrobori (to be annoying;)

How about "confluence"

Agora sounds good too - but also means a marketplace...

I like ConFab Or how about

Posted by niuserre on November 23, 2007 at 12:14am

I like ConFab

Or how about Con-Fu (or Con-Foo for the geeks amongst us..oh wait, that's nearly everyone)

Names....

Posted by producerman1 on January 19, 2008 at 8:16am

As a frustrated user:

Can'tconnectfrence, WhitePageofDeathfrence, HowManyTimesDoINeedToInstallItfrence, HowDoIloginAfterChangingAllphpMemSettingsAsInstructedandStillNothingfrence.

What a guy who could get it to work would name it:

Colosseum (as it pertains to a big meeting place), DRUPALGANISER, DRUPALFRENCE, OhMyGodthisThingSavedMyLife (but I can't get it to work.), ORGMORPHEUS, ORGANAMORPHEUS, CONFERENCE LINK, CONFERENCE CONTROL.

Note: I can get a standard install of Drupal to work successfully (MAMP on a G4 MD Dual 1.25 1.5g). After I discovered the COD package I uninstalled, precongifured as directed, (except for the "pearwiki_filter" as there are no instructions for a mac.) and went through the motions. Several times (to say the least), for the past 2 days). I would hate to think that the "pearwiki_filter" is my nemesis on this but I don't see how it should be a factor.

Please, can someone tell me why I immediately after submitting the db name u/p (as set up in MySql) it tells me that everything is fine and I may proceed to the Main Page or Admin page. NOTE: "It never asks me to create a master user". If I click on either of the links it leads me to a blank page then I try a refresh and get the Drupal already installed, then a page saying access denied, then I do the edit update to "False" and then the mem settings in all related files as directed, does it's thing, then blank page time again. Sorry to post here but you seem to be the man behind the curtain. If I am missing some special info regarding the "pearwiki_filter" and the Mac OS please post them somewhere.

Thank you so much in advance for your help and or direction to some help.

PM1

gets stuck, for sure...

Posted by alex ua on January 12, 2011 at 9:16pm

CampCon? Is that a new Kotex product?

I agree with COD being lame, esp. since it already has a crap ton of well heeled examples (collect on delivery, cause of death, call of duty, certificate of deposit, etc).

How about CampSpace?

Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology