[news.eclipse.technology.eilf] Re: Re-Think the Name of our Project

[Meike Reichle <reichle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey!

Jürgen Schumacher said/sagte on/am 02/04/08 10:37:
> Hello Meike
> 
> Welcome to this Newsgroup! Thanks for your interest in our project.

Thanks for the welcome! I am a researcher at the University of
Hildesheim and so my interest in, errr, $NAME is mainly a scientific
one. We're always looking for powerful free (as in speech) tools to use
in our research on intelligent information systems.

Also, since it's based on the eclipse framework, which is quite popular
among our students, we hope that it will be rather easy to use for them,
even though the underlying technology is rather complex. Because of that
we hope that we can also use it in teaching and give it to our students,
so they can use it for their student projects. What I've seen and read
so far looks quite promising in that regard. (Yes, I know, education is
not your actual focus, but it's a nice "side effect".)

>From my own personal experience, using free software in research is
always benefitial. It's just much more flexible and a collaboration with
the respective developers usually serves both sides.


> Am 01.04.2008, 18:10 Uhr, schrieb Meike Reichle
> <reichle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> I'd agree on that. Software with a generic word as a name is a nuisance,
>> at least in my humble opinion. Especially in the area of free software
>> you quite often end up searching for something related to your software
>> or maybe the software itself. With a name like FILE the software would
>> be very hard to find.
> 
> Good argument. Especially because there exists already something named the
> "Eclipse File System".
> 
>> SMILLA
>> The SeMantic Information Life cycle and Logistics Application
>>
>> You know, Smilla's sense of information ;)
> 
> Very nice idea, IMHO (-: I also like the similarity to "smile",
> makes it sound quite friendly.

Yea, I also like anthropoid system names. I think they're good for
acceptance.

Best,
Meike