Sounds right to me :-)
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On Sun, May 11, 2014, at 06:11 PM, Mark Dilley wrote:
> *love*
>
> Best, Mark
>
>
313-942-9454
>
>
> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Brett Neumeier <
bneu...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I'll go ahead and pitch in a couple of cents:
> >
> > I, too, think "decko" is a great name. Sounds to me like a portmanteau of
> > "deck" (as in of cards) and "deco" (as in art), both of which fit
> > swimmingly. Well, you could also get "echo" out of it, but I don't see how
> > that's a disadvantage.
> >
> >
> > And I also concur that it's got a nicely balanced feel to it -- not too
> > frivolous, not too serious. +1.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Chris Anderson <
chrisj...@gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Sold.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> On May 11, 2014, at 6:17 PM, Ethan McCutchen <
et...@grasscommons.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> So here's why the Wagn rebranding conversation got quiet.
> >>
> >> *I found out a few weeks ago that
decko.org <
http://decko.org> might** become
> >> available* and got excited about the name *Decko*, which addressed many
> >> community concerns about both *Wagn* and *Cardicle.* I didn't write
> >> about it, because I haven't ever before vied for a domain coming back onto
> >> the market and didn't want it on this public list because of the
> >> (admittedly small) risk that it might attract competition from those more
> >> expert than I at the domain-grabbing arts.
> >>
> >> But now, as of Friday, *
decko.org <
http://decko.org> belongs to Grass
> >> Commons*! And* I'd like to advocate for the idea of renaming Wagn to
> >> Decko at the 2.0 release*.
> >>
> >> I don't want to recap the entire conversation, but here are some things I
> >> like about it:
> >>
> >> - John gave us some great framing for the google test. The fact that
> >> so many people on this list misspelled Cardicle (almost all of them knowing
> >> they'd done so but helpfully leaving the typos in place) was perhaps the
> >> most persuasive evidence that Cardicle was going to fail that one. My
> >> hunch is that *
decko.org <
http://decko.org> will do very well on the
> >> google test* and extremely well on two of the bullets (not in John's
> >> order): (1) we'll be able to own the top search results for "decko" really
> >> quickly because, while the name is in use, we have a stronger web presence
> >> than the other usages, and (2) people who see the name will be able to
> >> spell (and type) it correctly. On the third point, I do think it will be
> >> possible to hear "deco", so we may have to occasionally spell it or say
> >> "spelled like a deck of cards", but with 5 letters this is ok; with 8 it's
> >> not. The bigger issue is probably that we don't own the .com, which we'd
> >> like to get and redirect to the .org domain, but realistically I don't
> >> think a lot of 5-letter domains that do this well on the google test are
> >> available on .org, and almost none of them are available as .com
> >> - Lewis like the idea of a card-related name but voiced concern that *"Cardicle"
> >> sounded like a part, not a whole. The deck (of cards) is clearly the right
> >> metaphor there.* In fact, in future versions of the software, the
> >> "Deck" (application instance) will be a *part* of systems of
> >> connected decks, so having a word that embraces this metaphor is a big help.
> >> - Brandon brought up many other good points about the word "Deck",
> >> including its *tech appeal* (which Wagn misses) and how it* pivots to
> >> ship metaphors*. Those ship metaphors nicely preserve space for the *team
> >> journey metaphors* we've used with Wagn over the years. I think I
> >> may have undervalued this community aspect of the name "wagn", so it's very
> >> cool to have that back and to move forward with a name with even better
> >> community metaphors before (because they are more international and
> >> contemporary).
> >> - Brett did some nice riffing on "cardist", which brought *art/design
> >> ideas *to the fore. The *"art deco" connotation of Decko honors that*impulse and ties together design and technical themes. I do hope that as
> >> our community grows we'll cultivate really generative relationships between
> >> designers and developers (and view everyone as a little bit of both), so
> >> it's cool to have a name that celebrates both.
> >> - Mark pushed us towards ideas that would resonate quickly. This was
> >> another thing that I reluctantly had to admit about the name Cardicle;
> >> while the particle metaphors were rich, particle physics may not be the
> >> best place to turn for simple explanatory analogies! I think "decko = deck
> >> o' cards" makes quick intuitive sense, it helps make the name sticky, and
> >> it opens the conversations crisply.
> >>
> >> In addition, after all these years of dropping the "o" from Wagon, it's
> >> nice to show the poor letter some respect ;)
> >>
> >> Of course, this opens up a world of bad puns: words based on deck, decor,
> >> deca, dex, tech, eco, echo.... WagNet might become the DeckoSphere and
> >> it contain lots of semiautonomous DeckoSystems... Lots of Decksterity.
> >> OK, I'll stop.
> >>
> >> *I'm interested to hear how you hear the name*. I didn't really see