[squeak-dev] Name change: Mushroom ( was Re: evolutions of squeakelib & crypto)

Ben Coman btc at openinworld.com
Mon Dec 7 15:38:15 UTC 2015


I like it, but it seems you missed my point :)
mushroom --> 117,000,000 is two orders of magnitude more hidden.
Anyway, maybe I overplay its significance.
cheers -ben

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Robert Withers
<robert.w.withers at gmail.com> wrote:
> I renamed the project to Mushroom and I also dumped the encoding work to
> focus on shutdown, optimization and serialization. Here's the wiki:
> https://github.com/SqueakCryptographySquad/Mushroom/wiki
>
> thanks,Robert
>
>
> On 12/06/2015 01:42 AM, Ben Coman wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Robert Withers
>> <robert.w.withers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/05/2015 09:24 PM, Ben Coman wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Robert Withers
>>>> <robert.w.withers at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Now I think you are right on with your observation. Additionally, the
>>>>> number
>>>>> of dialects could increase further with Fuel serialization, just port
>>>>> SecureSession and bits.
>>>>>
>>>>> Alright, I came up with a name and it may border on the egregious ...
>>>>> presenting ...
>>>>>
>>>>> "Maelstrom"
>>>>
>>>> Great sounding name.  However some general advice for the community,
>>>> since I see a lot of great sounding project names drowned out in the
>>>> noise of our web-search-centric universe.  A litmus test for project
>>>> naming is using google search to find which return low search results.
>>>> Today, its more important to be unique than any other attribute of a
>>>> name.  So in general, *dictionary* english words are not the best.
>>>> One technique is to intentionally mispell the word you like.  Here are
>>>> some comparative examples (note, the surrounding quotes are required
>>>> to avoid google trying to be helpful and correct the spelling)...
>>>>
>>>> "maelstrom"    --> 7,480,000
>>>> "maelstroom"  --> 6,200
>>>> "maelstrum"    --> 2,280
>>>> "maelstruum"  --> 7
>>>>
>>>> Lots of interesting other techniques can be found by searching on:
>>>> techniques to generate brand names or domain names.
>>>>
>>>> cheers -ben
>>>
>>>
>>> I would be happy to change the names to something more unique, though it
>>> may
>>> take a few. Are you suggesting "maelstruum"?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>> Robert
>>>
>>>
>> *Suggesting* yes, but the choice is yours ;)  You need to own it.
>>
>> I think maelstruum is certainly memorable with the double "u", but
>> maybe jarring next the the "m".  I'm inclined to maelstroom, since I
>> associate it with "zoom".  I wouldn't necessarily go for the absolute
>> lowest results.  I have an entirely unsubstantiated belief that
>> anything less than 10,000 gives a reasonable chance to compete once a
>> user's browsing history is taken into account.  Finally you need to
>> check existing results don't return something abhorrent (I didn't do
>> this).
>>
>> I'd encourage to play around testing on google search.  Its quick and
>> easy to generate and test alternatives. I've added a few more below.
>> "maelstra" --> 3,560
>> "maelstram" --> 504
>> "maelstrim" --> 1200
>> "maelstroon" --> 58
>> "maelstroomi" --> 4
>>
>> btw, I wouldn't swap the order of the "ae" since that would be
>> susceptible to real typing errors.
>>
>> cheers -ben
>>
>
>


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