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

[Bob Dodd]

> 
> 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 (unless you want
to do a lot of dictionary checking just in case your invented word is a
rude word in another language).

"Alexandria" may not be perfect, but it's good enough...

/Bob Dodd



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