Trisquel 9 Needs A Name
When a person proposes a name, that person is "categorically opposed" to every other proposal?
What Fit did was proposing an entire group of names, hence he was "opposed to" all the other groups, which is a natural biproduct of proposing things.
What you did was attacking his proposal and questioning his intentions.
I see I haven't been very diplomatic with my posts. To all involved parties, I apologize, and I'll try to do better next time.
Hey onpon, it's good of you to say this, and I'm happy to be part of a community where we value being friendly and welcoming, and where it's ok and earns respect to admit when things go wrong. Respect.
For the record, I sympathize with the point you were making. As you know, I'm pretty good as laying on the rhetorical flushes myself, but in hindsight, I think just stating the facts about the genders of past names would have made your point for you. I didn't know many of the past names were female, and it was good to find out. Thanks to you for sharing the knowledge, and to Fil for making the comment that allowed the knowledge to be shared :)
>I'm a "white heterosexual middle-class man" (yuck!). I'm definitely no female supremacist. And I don't like the idea of anybody's "supremacy" over anybody else. Be it of any kind.
You mind explaining the (yuck!) that you included after listing what you are?
Irony? Self-deprecating humour?
Female supremacy? Lol, I don't think Fil is the "SJW" here.
Trisquel 9 -> Lugus
> I don't have a particular preference,
> but I think it should definitely be a *female* name.
Flidas is a female figure in Irish Mythology
Perhaps this list would be useful:
A few recommendations:
Telesphorus. The name (via false cognates) suggests telecommunications and light, which in this age of the internet, fiber optics, and glowing screens, fits computers well. The name apparently actually means "accomplisher" or "bringer of completion" which would be fitting once the distro is released. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesphorus_(mythology) One downside is that the "-us" suffix suggests a Latin rather than Celtic origin to the average person.
Neto. Easy to say and pronounce. Worshipped by ancient Celts in the Iberian peninsula, which fits Trisquel's origins as being targeted to Celtic-descended people in a region of Spain. Downside for some is that this was a god of war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neto_(deity)
Ériu. Old name for Éire, the patron goddess of pre Christian Ireland. Its appeal to the Irish and their diaspora could be seen as a feature (since the Irish are the largest Celtic group worldwide) but also a bug, obscuring Trisquel's Galician origins.
Llŷr. Has a very Celtic feel without being too difficult to spell. Too specifically Welsh-sounding?
Clíona (a more accessible spelling of Clíodhna). A pleasant ring to the name, with some pleasant aspects to the myth, such as being a goddess of love and beauty. Downside: some beliefs about her were of her as a banshee, a wailing mourner of the dead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cl%C3%ADodhna.
If we were to go with Neto, the pronounciation could be "neat-o" ;)
This once I would like a name that ends with a vowel, such as Secuana or Habrena. Anyway, both are gods associated with rivers; this is suitable for the new version: if Ubuntu 18.04 is a beaver, we can give him a place to live in freedom. ;)
My proposal for a masculine name :
Mabon: Welsh god of freedom, harmony, unity, music and youth, known as the son of the Great Mother.
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> "It should be a "searchable" name (that is, a name that doesn't have many results on search engines, so we can "take it over." For example: Searching for Flidas has Trisquel in the top results."
Just a (not-too-thoroughly though out, I have to say) thought but surely searching for a name we can "take over" won't help (since that means anyone searching for Flidas now is probably looking for Trisquel anyway and would just type "Trisquel Flidas" without being in the slightest deterred), whereas going for a name that's "taken over" on e.g. Google (i.e. has a lot of people searching for it already) would instead expose Trisquel to people who otherwise would've had no chance of encountering it?
tl;dr: wouldn't actively going for a name not taken over by anything be a bit of a preaching to the choir thing not exposing more people to Trisquel?
EDIT: voted +1 thinking I could neutralise it back to zero. I can''t.
Trisquel 9 now has a name!!!
I think jxself is a god. We should have named it after him!
:)
Aiming to have had the subsequent Trisquel based on Bionic Beaver is, I sense, at the same time both over-ambitious and underambitious.
I am a translator!
Trixself :)
Vivi, Dina, Meela, Sally, Polina, Bela, Leya
I am a translator!
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