Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-marketing (508 mails)

["Bryen M. Yunashko" <suserocks@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 19:04 -0600, Rajko M. wrote:
> On Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:19:24 am Bryen M. Yunashko wrote:
>
> > If I'm not mistaken (and it wouldn't be the first time I've been
> > mistaken) OBS also packages for Windows.  Thus Linux Build Service
> > wouldn't work.   Open is still the best.
>
> As mentioned before we can use only "OBS" and as explanation of acronym, it 
> stood for openSUSE Build Service. The same thing that happened with S.u.S.E. 
> conversion to SUSE, from Software und System Entwicklung to SUSE. Previous 
> name has only historic value. 
>
> "OBS a build service", for instance sounds good too me. 
> Not as a recursive name, but more like "SUSE a Novell company". 
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Rajko


Ok so we've heard some good vigorous discussions of pros and cons from
both sides of the aisle and this is a good discussion.  Even if nothing
comes of it, it still gave us a chance to exercise that muscle up in our
noggin about thinking marketing.   But I think at this point we've
pretty much exhausted both sides arguments.

So, in order to not turn this discussion into an endless thread and try
to summarize and figure out where to go from here, I see the following:

1.  The choice is between "Open Build Service" and "openSUSE Build
Service" and leaving it at OBS and allowing people to spell it out
however they choose.

2.  Do we recommend, as a marketing team, to propose either of the
options as listed in #1.  Remember, we're just a segment of the overall
project and thus whatever we vote on is a recommendation and not a
binding change across the project.  We can only vote on a consensus of
the above options and then recommend it to the OBS team and Project.

Seems that we should be picking which name we want to use and move from
here.  We have a lot of activities coming up where we can promote OBS
and the sooner we can come to a consensus and develop our marketing
strategies based on that consensus, the better.

So... let's vote:

A.  We recommend formally changing the name to ""Open Build Service"

B.  We recommend formally changing the name to OBS and allowing people
to use "openSUSE Build Service" or "open Build Service" as they see fit.

C.  Leave it as is - openSUSE Build Service

I'm entering my vote now for A.

Bryen M Yunashko
openSUSE Marketing Team


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