Aschwin Marsman wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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I've finally put the vote page for the theme of our codenames online:

http://www.opensuse.org/CodenameCompetitionVote

Please vote for the codename that you like most! Andreas

P.S. Since we do not have the voting implemented, we do voting via editing of the page.

How do you want the page to be edited?

Best regards,

Aschwin Marsman

login, then edit (bottom of the page) jdd -- Bonne année à tous :-) http://www.dodin.net Quelques images: http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 10:03, Aschwin Marsman wrote:

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, jdd wrote:

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Aschwin Marsman wrote:

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On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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P.S. Since we do not have the voting implemented, we do voting via editing of the page.

How do you want the page to be edited?

login, then edit (bottom of the page)

That's clear. I already did that. But what do I have to add to vote? I see e.g.:

<br>--[[User:CuCullin|CuCullin]] 07:16, 10 Jan 2006 (MST)

as a vote. What do you have to add and what's added automagically? The preview didn't show what I expected.

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jdd

Best regards,

Aschwin Marsman

I just added my signature using the signature button on the toolbar when editing. I added the line break for clarity.... though I could have just added another carriage returns when editing, but there it is. Btw... you could have used spaces in the article title guys :) -Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 11:52, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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Btw... you could have used spaces in the article title guys :)

Sorry, will do next time, Andreas

Oh no problem, just pointing out that the wiki automatically handles spaces properly in the title :) Speaking of lizard pictures, I've been meaning to take a picture of Lillian, my gf's pet, sitting on top of my main SUSE box... I'll have to get on that. -Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin

The voting is over, we have: Theme: "Lizards": 11 votes Theme: "Mountains of the World": 9 votes Theme: "Rivers of Developers": 2 votes Ok, this gives us a winner. Thanks for everybody that participated. Now I need to choose enough Lizards, I'll look at this soon, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Juergen, On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:20, Juergen Weigert wrote:

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Ok, this gives us a winner. Thanks for everybody that participated. Now I need to choose enough Lizards, I'll look at this soon,

Dinosaurs and Dragons are also lizards, aren't they? :-)

Dinosaurs are lizards (the name means "terrible lizard"). Dragons do not exist, hence are no more lizards than they are butterflies.

cheers, Jw.

RRS

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:32:30AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Dragons do not exist, hence are no more lizards than they are butterflies.

Dragons are bioengineered descendants of fire lizards, so they count. Sonja -- Sonja Krause-Harder (skh@suse.de) Research & Development SUSE Linux Products GmbH

Hi, On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:51, Marcus Meissner wrote:

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Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs ... so they count too.

That lineage is probable, but not yet definitively established, if I'm up-to-date on my paleontology...

Ciao, Marcus

Say "Ciao," Randy Ciao.

Hallo, Am Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Fred A. Miller schrieb:

On Thursday 12 January 2006 10:28 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:51, Marcus Meissner wrote:

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Birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs ... so they count too.

That lineage is probable, but not yet definitively established, if I'm up-to-date on my paleontology...

Yes......there AREN'T any "cross over" examples - period.

You should check up on your information. There are. Not only the (in)famous Archaeopteryx. -dnh -- Just when you think you've got a handle on herding cats, along comes a three-legged cat on amphetamines." -- Skud

On 1/12/06, Randall R Schulz wrote:

Juergen,

On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:20, Juergen Weigert wrote:

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Ok, this gives us a winner. Thanks for everybody that participated. Now I need to choose enough Lizards, I'll look at this soon,

Dinosaurs and Dragons are also lizards, aren't they? :-)

Dinosaurs are lizards (the name means "terrible lizard").

Dragons do not exist, hence are no more lizards than they are butterflies.

Bearded dragon Komodo dragon Flying dragon To name a few Not "Mythical" dragons, but dragons by name none-the-less. Shane...

On Jan 12, 06 18:21:41 +0000, 'o-Dzin Tridral wrote:

Can we include the Monitor lizard?

[honoluluzoo.org] " Monitors belong to the family Varanidae. They are active lizards, that may " be very hostile, lashing out with their tails upon the slightest " provocation. Even a small monitor can produce a stinging lash with its " tail. The claws of monitors are long and sharp. The jaws are very strong. Once " they bite something it is very difficult to get them to let go. Perfect match! thanks, Jw. -- o \ Juergen Weigert paint it green! __/ _=======.=======_ <V> | jw@suse.de wide open suse_/ _---|____________\/ \ | 0911 74053-508 (tm)__/ (____/ /\ (/) | __________________________/ _/ \_ vim:set sw=2 wm=8

On Thursday 12 January 2006 10:21, 'o-Dzin Tridral wrote:

Can we include the Monitor lizard?

That's a Christian Science lizard?

'ö-Dzin

RRS

Juergen Weigert wrote:

On Jan 12, 06 08:32:30 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Dragons do not exist, hence are no more lizards than they are butterflies.

Who said 'existing lizards'? Reality is so boring.

sigh, Jw.

What about the mythical MesoAnerican God "Quetzalcoatl" ? Cheers, Patrick M.* *

Anders Johansson wrote:

On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:32, mop48836 wrote:

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Juergen Weigert wrote:

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On Jan 12, 06 08:32:30 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:

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Dragons do not exist, hence are no more lizards than they are butterflies.

Who said 'existing lizards'? Reality is so boring.

sigh, Jw.

What about the mythical MesoAmerican God "Quetzalcoatl" ?

He's a snake, not a lizard

Hi! yes... sure... but what about this definition from Wikipedia? Would Quetzalcoatl be in the same kind of category? "*Lizards* are reptiles of the order Squamata http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamata, which they share with the snakes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake (Ophidians)"

Juergen Weigert wrote:

On Jan 12, 06 17:42:30 +0000, mop48836 wrote:

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Who said 'existing lizards'? Reality is so boring.

sigh, Jw.

What about the mythical MesoAmerican God "Quetzalcoatl" ?

Counts as a God. Not as a lizard :-)

cheers, Jw.

OK! :-) Nevertheless, check the meaning if you want, for a future codename... Cheers, Patrick M.

Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:47 samaye, Juergen Weigert alekhiit:

Who said 'existing lizards'? Reality is so boring.

Yeah. What is Konqi, BTW? -- Penguin #395953 resides at http://samvit.org subsisting on SUSE Linux 10.0 with KDE 3.5

I think Dinosaurs sends the wrong message (old, outdated) where as Dragons sends the right message "large and powerful serpent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent or other reptile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptile, with magical http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical or spiritual http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality qualities." from Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons ). ;-) Darren Randall R Schulz wrote:

Juergen,

On Thursday 12 January 2006 08:20, Juergen Weigert wrote:

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Ok, this gives us a winner. Thanks for everybody that participated. Now I need to choose enough Lizards, I'll look at this soon,

Dinosaurs and Dragons are also lizards, aren't they? :-)

Dinosaurs are lizards (the name means "terrible lizard").

Dragons do not exist, hence are no more lizards than they are butterflies.

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cheers, Jw.

RRS

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On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:25 -0700, Darren R. Davis wrote:

I think Dinosaurs sends the wrong message (old, outdated) where as Dragons sends the right message "large and powerful serpent Hmm. Or not as the case may be - threatening and interesting times.

Better make it a red dragon, red is supposed to be culturally positive to the Chinese at least. Beware of cultural sensitivities!

On 1/12/06, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

The voting is over,

we have: Theme: "Lizards": 11 votes Theme: "Mountains of the World": 9 votes Theme: "Rivers of Developers": 2 votes

Ok, this gives us a winner. Thanks for everybody that participated.

Cool, that was my suggestion! Is there a price? :-)

I would think that any good pictures of lizards, (with copyright release), would be welcome. I myself would prefer a good picture taken by a community member than a perfect "stock" picture, for splash screens etc. Peter 'Pflodo' Flodin On 1/13/06, Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:

On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:04, Claes at work wrote:

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On 1/12/06, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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The voting is over,

we have: Theme: "Lizards": 11 votes Theme: "Mountains of the World": 9 votes Theme: "Rivers of Developers": 2 votes

Ok, this gives us a winner. Thanks for everybody that participated.

Cool, that was my suggestion! Is there a price?

:-)

You get, completely for free, SUSE OSS! Congratulations!

;)

As an aside, I decided a while ago to take a pic of my girlfriends iguana, Lillian, sitting atop either my 21" NEC monitor or my main workstation, which run's SUSE (obviously). I'll hopefully be soon doing some modding to it to give it that green/lizard feel, and my gf's dad is a major photography enthusiast (much more so than I am, he has some serious classic hardware that takes unbelievable shots). I was going to simply take this for personal use, but would this type of pic be of interest?

Joseph M. Gaffney aka CuCullin

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Coincidentally there's this news report from Prague Zoo, of the birth of a rare emerald Monitor http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2006/Art/0112/news4.php I don't know whether the pictures might be available to you - or useful to you, but I think they are worth a look. best regards, 'o-Dzin

Claes at work writes:

On 1/12/06, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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The voting is over,

we have: Theme: "Lizards": 11 votes Theme: "Mountains of the World": 9 votes Theme: "Rivers of Developers": 2 votes

Ok, this gives us a winner. Thanks for everybody that participated.

Cool, that was my suggestion! Is there a price?

:-)

I didn't made up a prize so far - but contact me offline with your address and I'll think about something tiny, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

Hello, On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

The voting is over,

*Wwaaaahhhh* You should've changed the subject. And yet...

we have: Theme: "Lizards": 11 votes Theme: "Mountains of the World": 9 votes Theme: "Rivers of Developers": 2 votes

I propose yet another theme: Culture (and other) ship names (as in Books by Iain M. Banks). Or another scheme: How about using the lizard theme (after "Geeko", obviously) for official releases and the Culture ship names theme for betas, release candidates etc. There is quite a bunch of nice "inappropriate" ones, e.g. "Poke It With A Stick" or "Fine Till You Came Along" or "Now Look What You've Made Me Do", which seem just the right sort of codename for a beta1... -dn'"We Haven't Met But You're A Great Fan Of Mine"'h -- "Here, in the bare dark face of night -- the LSV (Tundra Class) A calm unhurried eye draws sight "Serious Callers Only" -- We see in what we think we fear in "Excession" The cloudings of our thought made clear" by Iain M. Banks