[Qgis-user] Call for release name suggestions 2015

Tue Sep 1 14:19:40 PDT 2015

We use a “Space Objects” descriptor here for our large format plotters and printer naming . . .

Like:

  *   Blackhole
  *   Nebula
  *   Galaxy
  *   Aurora
  *   Meteor
  *   Asteroid
  *   Fireball
  *   Supernova
  *   Star

etc.

Should provide enough fodder for naming for  while.  Also fairly generic and can get obscure if you want to.

Just to get you all started . . .

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/thesaurus-category/american/planets-stars-and-other-objects-in-space

Oooh, “Antimatter”, that’s the next plotter name !!

bobb

On Sep 1, 2015, at 4:02 PM, Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de<mailto:jef at norbit.de>> wrote:

Hi Mats,

On Tue, 01. Sep 2015 at 17:06:23 +0200, Mats Elfström wrote:
Once, Qgis versions were named after planetary moons. We probably ran
out of those, at least those known to the public.

Nope, there are probably plenty left.  But we stopped using them because there
was a trademark claim on some of the moons we used by a company that already
used it for their software product.

Place names can be biased, like: now it's time for a latin american name and
so on.

We already had a latin american name: Copiapo.

May I suggest the periodic table of elements as base for the naming instead.
By cleverly using the groups one could even indicate major/minor version
changes.

Not sure if that's safer than moons.

Jürgen

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