Why not call it TANGO SERVER?

[holycow]

Hi.

Just out of curiosity ... why didn't you guys name the project something a little more 'friendly' sounding?

For example:

TANGO SERVER
TANGO CMS

SALSA SERVER
SALSA CMS

I understand the value of using an exotic word that has never been used in a business sense, but ... I will never  be able to walk into the clients office and tell them they are using JOOMLA! CMS Server.

I mean no offense, I completely agree with your fork and reasoning behind that and support you guys, but I simply CANNOT use anything called JOOMLA.  It sounds silly, and it has the smell of "I will haveto explain the Swahili meaning of the word EVERY SINGLE TIME I mention the word Joomla".

Okay, with that being said, let me also acknowledge that the motivation of this post is greed, and I acknowledge your freedom to have as much fun as possible with the project.  I think it's great you have the guts to name a project something rather silly, and it I think I can even see it as sounding fun - certainly from a freshmeat.net perspective you will never forget the name.  And you do have my suggestions above to ridicule, I thought to at least offer some options (which you probably considered seeing as they are logical tangents in terms of relationships between the two projects) so that I don't sound like a whiny bitch!  Anyway the question is still valid from a marketing perspective.

On a related tangent, naming the project the CHACHACHA CMS SERVER would be a sillier name than yours, but I haveto admit, I'd KILL to be in a business meeting where I had to pitch the CHACHACHA server just to see the clients expression!!!!!!

:-)

Anyway, go guys, you should rethink your name choice, it isn't a very good one - just because Ubuntu got away with it doesn't mean you can.

[me=holycow]puts on asbestos shorts ... flame on![/me]

[stingrey]

Our minimum criteria when we looked at the Name choice is posted by other of the team here:
http://forum.opensourcematters.org/inde ... l#msg27286
http://forum.opensourcematters.org/inde ... l#msg27398


Both Tango and Salsa failed.
Salsa particularly as there is already a CMS project called Salsa:
http://www.caprionline.it/salsa/en/salsa.html


It was simply not possible to use such generic and common names like Tango and Salsa with already somany existing products that use these names.

[idigital]

After extensive surveying of the names "Tango" and "Salsa" in IRC, the overwhelming conclusion was that those names were seen to be very "ghey". 

[holycow]

hahaha!

indeed!

[farimi]

OSM will own joomla! branding. period.