Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Some ideas for GNU/Alexandria

[Imran Ghory]

On 20 Jan 2001, at 9:33, Bob Dodd wrote:

> 
> > 
> > I would agree, but: the name Alexandria is connected with a military
> > "hero" and, more important, to me it seems to be focusing a little
> > bit too strong on the western/european tradition ... of course, it
> > is better known than Nalanda, the buddhist university city in India,
> > that is said to have covered more than 7.000.000 books during
> > centuries 4-7/8. This city was in fact founded as a univesity
> > campus! But, in the web you need a well known and established name,
> > unfortunately, to tell people, what your site might content. Another
> > suggestion good be an artificial word like GNUledge ?
> > 
> > Bernd
> 
> I don't think you can win playing the name game, if you're not careful
> you end up in the "Red Cross/Red Cescent" fiasco. By the time you've
> ruled out words too close to other projects (Gnupedia), any sort of
> military links(Alexandria), religious links (Nalanda), racial links,
> sexist links, and have found a word/phrase that translates neatly into
> multiple languages without giving offence in any of them, and is still
> pronounceable, you're pretty much reduced to numbers 

I don't think it's that bad, many many words exist that could be 
used.

Personally I think Alexandria is the best suggestion so far, as an 
another idea for a name how about Foundation (After Asimov's 
series of the same name which contained an encyclopedia of all 
knowledge which was made by a hundred thousand workers).

Also how about a name from Greek/Roman mythology I think we'd 
be on fairly same ground there.

Imran