CompComm has a real name!

[imnotpc]

Our previous attempts to select a project name for CompComm have not gone
well. We tried a poll but the names in the poll were not pre-qualified to
determine if they were usable and the “winning” name was also a strongly
disliked name. Kristian and I each proposed a plan to select a name, but that
effort got sidetracked by a massive flame war on the mailing list.

While our community has some democratic features, ultimately it is a
meritocracy and the people who contribute the most value have the most say.
So in the end a decision was made by the majority of the people who have
contributed the most.

That doesn't mean that all the discussion was wasted. In fact the chosen name
wasn't proposed by any of the leaders, but was proposed in one of the naming
threads (michael.krog's post was the first place I saw it). It was
immediately popular and received very few negative comments.

I'm pleased to announce that the chosen name of our project and community is:

Compiz Fusion

For the record, the following developers and admins either participated in and
supported the selection process (not all voted yes), or have stated their
support for the name:

David Reveman, Erkin Bahceci (cornelius), Guillaume Seguin (iXce), Dennis
Kasprzyk (onestone), Jigish Gohil (cyberorg), Danny Baumann (maniac), Patrick
Niklaus (marex), Roi Cohen (roico), Alex Heck (nesl247), Robert Carr
(racarr), Kristian Lyngstøl (kristianLy), Rico Pfaus (RYX) (conditional),
Quinn Storm (QuinnStorm) and Jeffrey Laramie (imnotpc).

Jeff

[mikedee]

For the record I was never asked.

I agree too, but Jeff would rather make it look like I do not agree with anything for his own political motivations.

Ho hum :roll: Nothing really changes around here does it?

[imnotpc]

For the record I was never asked.

I agree too, but Jeff would rather make it look like I do not agree with anything for his own political motivations.

Ho hum :roll: Nothing really changes around here does it?
Glad to hear you support the name. We can add this to the short list of things we agree on.

[mikedee]

For the record I was never asked.

I agree too, but Jeff would rather make it look like I do not agree with anything for his own political motivations.

Ho hum :roll: Nothing really changes around here does it?
Glad to hear you support the name. We can add this to the short list of things we agree on.

So why do I have this strange feeling that this agreement is just you pushing the original adgenda, but backed upon a different agreement?

Why do I feel there is another round of 'Mike does not want to do what the community wants' to come?

[imnotpc]

Mike, we've agreed on more things in the last few days than in the last few months. Let's build on that, but let's not have this discussion in the announcement section.

[mikedee]

Just wondering if during the discussion anyone brought up Vmware Fusion and what the response to that was?

http://www.vmware.com/beta/fusion/

[RYX]

Maybe we shouldn't start cheering yet. I just want to note that the only thing that has currently been agreed on is the following proposal by QuinnStorm:
Opencompositing.org - forums, links, hosting(perhaps, depending on project)
for many compositing-related projects, perhaps including at least part of
what is tentatively called compiz fusion (though the forums may actually be
at compiz.org to make the link-merge work)

compiz.org - forums at least for the compiz community, have discussions about
C-F here, perhaps host part of it here (we already have a nice working git on
OCO, but it'd be simple to have DNS redirect so naming doesn't matter), have
this be the official place for C-F even though at least part of it is under
the larger OCO project umbrella

Therefore, C-F is a compiz enhancement project while OCO is a generalized Free
Software compositing hub

Jeff, we shouldn't make the mistake to hurry with announcements like that one. Especially not if it hasn't been discussed on the mailing list. All we have is a very rough draft and brief description of what we are and what we not are. The next step will be to write down some details. Then we can make things official.

(But besides that I am happy about the name and don't want to always be the one with complains :D ...)

:)

[amgeex]

The name's fine... Let me know when you guys have something worth working for. Right now I'm sticking to cleaning and maintaining the Compiz wiki and patrolling the Compiz forum. If you need some extra help just email or pm me. :D