[soc-dev] Naming problem

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings folks. Now that the SOC project has been made totally real, we 
have a small problem to solve.

All Eclipse project names need to be trademarked. So... we need to have 
a name that is trademarkable. I'm quite sure that including the word 
"Google" in the title is out of the question. As far as I can tell, 
Google hasn't attempted to trademark "Summer of Code", but I'd expect 
that it'd be a difficult term for us to trademark regardless.

I've been thinking of expanding beyond Google anyway. It seems to me 
that this project is an excellent vehicle for the Eclipse community to 
work with the university/college community in a more general way I'd 
love to see this as a place where students can come and get involved 
with Eclipse. Here, they can find a mentor and work on interesting 
problems (including fixing bugs, etc.). If somebody like Google wants to 
pay the students for their time and effort, then that's wonderful; but I 
don't think that it's a critical element. FWIW, I've been talking with a 
university that has some funding to do something similar with their 
students.

It'll be easier for all involved if we can keep the "SOC" acronym. I 
believe that it provides linkage and continuity to the work that we've 
done to date and it'll be easier on the webmaster if we don't have to 
ask him to change it.

To that end, I'm soliciting your suggestions for a new project name. 
Here are some that I've come up with:

Student Open Collaboration
Students on Crack (okay, I didn't come up with this one, but I thought 
it was a little funny)

Other suggestions are welcome, even if they don't work with the 
established acronym.

Thanks,

Wayne