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

Robert Withers robert.w.withers at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 15:11:42 UTC 2015


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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