We need a name

[David Siegel]

We really need a name for our project. I kind of like Mercury, and so does Moshe, although I think we still can do better. Ian doesn't like Mercury. Will you guys share your thoughts?

David

[Douglas Colkitt]

http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/gre-myth.php
The above is a link to a bunch of names from Greek mythology, which is a pretty generic list when trying to come up with a cool name for a computer utility/hedge fund/military super-weapon. I think Mercury is pretty cool, but Aella (meaning whirlwind), Aiolos (god of wind), Icarus, Phrixus or Zephyr all sound good. Outside of Greek mythology we could go with a Demon name (link below), I like Cresil (demon of laziness, which is good for our project, because it allows you to be lazy by typing what you want to do), Ipos, Naberius, or Verin (demon of impatience, again goes along with our project).
http://www.angelsghosts.com/underworld_demons.html

Of course there's always my favorite source for names, Starcraft!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_StarCraft
Zeratul, Artanis and Raszagal are all cool sounding.

[David Siegel]

Verlin reminded me of Merlin, which implies that our program uses magic.

David

[David Siegel]

I got it:

tel·os ( tĕl'ŏs, tē'lŏs) (Telos or Teleo or TeleoLauncher...)
n.

The end of a goal-oriented process.

[Greek.]

A telos (from the Greek word for "end", "purpose", or "goal," pronounced TEE-los) is an end or purpose, in a fairly constrained sense used by philosophers such as Aristotle. It is the root of the term "teleology ," roughly the study of purposiveness, or the study of objects with a view to their aims, purposes, or intentions. Teleology figures centrally in Aristotle's biology and in his theory of causes. It is central to nearly all philosophical theories of history, such as those of Hegel and Marx. One running debate in contemporary philosophy of biology is to what extent teleological language (as in the "purposes" of various organs or life-processes) is unavoidable, or is simply a shorthand for ideas that can ultimately be spelled out nonteleologically. Philosophy of action also makes essential use of teleological vocabulary: on Davidson's account, an action is just something an agent does with an intention--that is, looking forward to some end to be achieved by the action.

Dave

[James S. Walker]

i was thinking of calling ians and my component "ergnomancy" from
"ergonomancy" meaning divination by action (i.e. by watching actions).
it fits nicely with the greek naming scheme, but its a mouthful.

On 10/22/07, David Siegel <djsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I got it:
>

> tel·os ( tĕl'ŏs, tē'lŏs) (Telos or Teleo or TeleoLauncher...)

[David Siegel]

Maybe just "ergo"? I think Telos has nice connotations for your component, too; your component is end-oriented AND end-originating. You study ends (actions proceeding deliberation of users) and you make inferences about future ends (user actions).

David

[David Siegel]

Oooh, Sean just suggested "Hg" --- that's kind of sexy.

David

[David Siegel]

Hg is the symbol for Mercury.  We could pronounce it "Hg", it looks like an abbreviation, and we could use words containing Hg in order to intimate something about how we match strings:

Hg: An incredibly fast launc her for GNOME.

David

[David Siegel]

Sorry---I meant we can pronounce it "aech-gee", saying each letter. Duh.

[David Siegel]

Wow, imagine if our key trigger were "hg" - there are only 4 words in the English dictionary where those letters appear consecutively, and on a QWERTY keyboard this has got to be one of the easiest things to type.

[Rick Harding]

On Oct 22, 3:08 pm, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow, imagine if our key trigger were "hg" - there are only 4 words in the
> English dictionary where those letters appear consecutively, and on a QWERTY
> keyboard this has got to be one of the easiest things to type.
>
> David

Jumping in to this since seeing the link on the Ubuntu forums.

This is really already done by the mercurial project:
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

Rick

[DAZ]

I like the name Mercury, using Hg somewhere in the logo and love the
idea of hg as a launcher.

DAZ

[DAZ]

In fact ... I've just gone and changed all the entries for it to
Mercury. Sounds great. Next job of course is a logo....

[Richard Harding]

Did you miss the link I posted above? There is already a commonly used
version control system with hg as the binary command. It's like bzr but
instead all the commands use hg. Their logo is the chemical symbol for
mercury. This is really a bad idea since you're basically stomping on
another open source project pretty hard core here.

Browse through the wiki here:

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

Rick

[Krev]

Hi there!

First of all I don't know if it's appropriate for a non-contributor to
suggest a name, but if it is appropriate, my suggestion is: Potion. Or
Gnome Potion.

The name Potion - at least to me - invokes the all around magic that I
get with gnome do, soo...

Cheers

[Richard Harding]

Krev wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> First of all I don't know if it's appropriate for a non-contributor to
> suggest a name, but if it is appropriate, my suggestion is: Potion. Or
> Gnome Potion.
>
> The name Potion - at least to me - invokes the all around magic that I
> get with gnome do, soo...
>
> Cheers
>

Well good ideas come from anywhere so I don't think it's limited to just
contributors.

As for my ideas, I like the idea of keeping to the launcher idea so here
are a few of mine:

kinetic - seems cool, in motion, nothing on sourceforge or a quick
google search pulls up

along the same lines of kinetic
zippy - short, cute name.

Domains are available for these two with something after the name such
as zippylauncher.org and such.

I liked how katapult named their app, a launching device like that. So I
checked out other siege engine type devices and the only that that
sounded close to useful was ballista.

Opinions welcome.

Rick

[Krev]

You talked about ballista. In that frame, what about bullet? lightning
fast object, gets things done (in a way)

[David Siegel]

Hmm... bullet sounds kind of violent! Ballista or ballistic is kind of cool.

David

[Krev]

Yes it kind of is, i agree:P

My final suggestion then: trigger (though I like ballistic)

On Nov 18, 5:10 pm, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm... bullet sounds kind of violent! Ballista or ballistic is kind of cool.
>
> David
>

[Rick Harding]

On Nov 18, 12:10 pm, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm... bullet sounds kind of violent! Ballista or ballistic is kind of cool.
>
> David

I'm all for things like nouns vs adjectives. Kind of like banshee,
tomboy, etc.

Rick

[David Siegel]

Atomic ("Atomic Launcher" - very cool art possibilities - atoms and molecules and such)
Savvy (connotes the intelligent aspects - learning, etc.)
Mako (very fast)
Einstein (smart)
Lightspeed (fast)

Thoughts?

[James S. Walker]

I really like "GNOME Trigger"

[Rick Harding]

On Nov 18, 9:43 pm, "James S. Walker" <jswal...@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> I really like "GNOME Trigger"

This started to grow on me. I even thought we might be able to get a
domain like Trigr.org or something, but alas...they're all taken. :-(

If you're into the mispselling thing BALISTIK.ORG is available as is
BALISTIC.ORG.

Mako would be cool, but there's already an open source python
templating library named mako.

So I'm digging kinetic & ballistic more and more with a potential url
of kinenticlaunch.org and such.

One thing I'd like to do is leave off the Gnome on the front. It
causes all kinds of problems. First, we're not actually part of the
gnome group and so when I tried to register the Freednode irc channel
I was told by the freenode staff I'd have to get approval from some
gnome irc guy. It got peachy when they told me they could not tell me
who it was since Gnome doesn't have a registered IRC group with
freenode so it's basically impossible for me to register gnome-do
officially.

Then on the gnome irc network the channels have no concept of chanserv
so I've not figured out how it handles things like ops and such.

Just some more of my opinions.
Rick

[DAZ]

> Did you miss the link I posted above? There is already a commonly used
> version control system with hg as the binary command. It's like bzr but
> instead all the commands use hg. Their logo is the chemical symbol for
> mercury. This is really a bad idea since you're basically stomping on
> another open source project pretty hard core here.
>

whoops ... sorry I missed that. Shame as I liked mercury.....

[DAZ]

How about 'sparkplug'?

I also like the sound of 'ice' as in it makes things move along
quicker.

[Al Pagan]

These all sound fantastic - I can see some cool geometric logo designs
coming from these names. Trouble is, until the name is finalised, I
don't want to start submitting further designs - any idea when and how
to finalise GNOME Do's name? How have other projects done this?

[David Siegel]

All I can say is don't expect a new name soon, but everyone should keep brainstorming.

David

[David Siegel]

How about Maestro? As in orchestra conductor.

Al, the name will not be finalized for a while. Open source projects
like this one generally don't work by finalization, so you should feel
free to work on artwork anyway :)

David

[Richard Harding]

David Siegel wrote:
> How about Maestro? As in orchestra conductor.
>
> Al, the name will not be finalized for a while. Open source projects
> like this one generally don't work by finalization, so you should feel
> free to work on artwork anyway :)
>
> David
>
>

So after talking with David today I went checking for some of these
words in an online English->Swahili dictionary. Ubuntu has worked so
well right?

So here are the results of that search. I left out a few Zulu ones that
were just too long/hard to figure out how to pronounce. Personally, I
really like Magic (azima) and Star in Zulu (imbasa).

English: Magic
Swahili: azima

English: Bullet
Swahili: risasi

English: Lightning
Swahili: umeme
Zulu: ubani

English: Rocket
Swahili: roketi

English: Star
Swahili: nyota
Zulu: imbasa

English: Conductor
Swahili: kondakta

Opinions?

Rick

[David Siegel]

I definitely like

English: Magic
Swahili: azima

The best.

[Subi]

Salaam (greetings)

I do not know much about this group but I joined because I am a
Tanzanian, a typical Swahili and I want to add some and possibly
correct meaning/translation of some KiSwahili words mentioned here. I
suggest using the "Kamusi project" for your English - Swahili
translations. www.yale.edu/swahili/

English: Magic (common translation of magic to any Swahili speaker is
"mazingaombwe" it is the opposite of miracle = muujiza)
Swahili: azima ("azima" has many translations but the common and
direct translation is "to borrow" See also "azma" = 'intention')

English: Bullet
Swahili: risasi (completely agree)

English: Lightning ( it's common translation is 'radi')
Swahili: umeme (when you say 'umeme' one will obviously think of
'electricity' or 'power' very few will ever think of 'lightining')
Zulu: ubani

English: Rocket
Swahili: roketi (completely agree)

English: Star
Swahili: nyota (completely agree)
Zulu: imbasa

English: Conductor
Swahili: kondakta (completely agree, other name is "utingo")

I am sorry if I was uninvited in the topic and ended up jumping on
someone's bike. I just wanted to share (with who?) my KiSwahili
language.
Thanks.
Subi.

[Al Pagan]

WOW. Great to have the translations, Subi. The idea of a project
called mazingaombwe, while bringing up wild logo ideas, doesn't seem
to lend itself well to a 'sudo aptitude install mazingaombwe'
command. Shame, as I liked the idea of the original incorrect 'magic'
translation: azima. The 'intention' translation, azma, unfortunately
sounds too much like the respiratory illness Asthma, I think.

I do love 'utingo' though.

[DAZ]

From: Al Pagan <generam...@gmail.com>

>> I do love 'utingo' though.

I like Utingo too - has a bit of an ubuntu feel and has the word GO in
it. Is it pronounced 'you' tingo, or 'oo' tingo?

DAZ

[Qarkeed]

Hi! I just started using GNOME Do and I love it! I would like to
contribute to the project in a near future but currently I have zero
idea of C#/Mono so I'll have to help tossing some ideas.

I think the idea of associating the program with some sort of magic is
quite good. A few hand gestures and some words and shazam, the app or
the file appears in front of you. So if "Shazam" is a over-used word,
maybe GNOME Charms or something like that could fit. The logo could be
some colourful sparks.

I also tend to think of these programs as helpers which, among all
your files, pinpoint those you want to open. In that line of thought,
Darts or Bullseye come to my mind as possible names.

Cheers.

[David Siegel]

"Shazam" is dope. Makes me laugh.

David

[immensewok]

So I'm a chemist and I hate mercury. I mean, its cool looking but if
you spill it or set the pressure too high on your bubbler it gets
everywhere and its a pain to clean up. You have to use a vacuum trap
with a tube on the end and suck up every single little shiny ball. Any
glassware that had mercury in it has to be cleaned with sulfur
(stinky) or dilute nitric acid (generates noxious gas). I think QS is
a great program and I think the name is appropriate but my profession
has conditioned me to shudder whenever I hear "quicksilver."

One of my favorite chemicals looks very similar to mercury. If you
take sodium and potassium metal (which are both very soft) and mush
them together it gets really cold and you make a liquid alloy. I use
it to dry solvent for my compounds that have no tolerance for water.
It works really well because of the high surface area (it breaks into
tiny spheres when you stir it) and its one of the most powerful
reducing agents available (it reacts with teflon so you have to use a
glass stir bar). As an added bonus, if I'm drying an ether and its
ready to go, the solution turns a deep blue (I've heard this is due to
solvated electrons but I've never confirmed it). Its quite beautiful
to see hundreds of shiny silver orbs floating in a dark blue solution.

So my (relatively obscure) suggestion for Gnome-Do's new name is
"NaK." Its like mercury but more powerful. And it sounds like "knack"
as in, this program understands how I use my computer.

On Dec 8, 6:21 pm, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Shazam" is dope. Makes me laugh.
>
> David
>

[James S. Walker]

gnak?

[David Siegel]

I really like gnak or gnack or knack (" A clever, expedient way of doing something."), but all of these are confusing to pronounce; I think most people would pronounce gnak "guh-nack", and knack "kuh-nack". Thoughts?

GNACK
   A clever, expedient way of doing something.

GNACK
  GNU Nicely Accurate Command Knickknack

:)

David

[James S. Walker]

knack looks like something for KDE.

[JBW]

This program is all about doing things fast and efficiently...so
howabout a simple name like Gnome Dash?

On Dec 10, 6:22 am, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I really like gnak or gnack or knack (" A clever, expedient way of doing
> something."), but all of these are confusing to pronounce; I think most
> people would pronounce gnak "guh-nack", and knack "kuh-nack". Thoughts?
>
> GNACK
> A clever, expedient way of doing something.
>
> GNACK
> GNU Nicely Accurate Command Knickknack
>
> :)
>
> David
>

> On Dec 10, 2007 2:54 AM, James S. Walker <jswal...@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
> > gnak?
>

[Richard Harding]

JBW wrote:
> This program is all about doing things fast and efficiently...so
> howabout a simple name like Gnome Dash?
>
>

There's already a program for windows that is close called Dash. I don't
think we should overlap naming with other similar apps.

Rick

[russ]

I like Savvy. The V's kind of make it look like Sawy though. But you
could use the V's as an icon or something. I don't know.

On Nov 18, 4:06 pm, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Atomic ("Atomic Launcher" - very cool art possibilities - atoms and
> molecules and such)
> Savvy (connotes the intelligent aspects - learning, etc.)
> Mako (very fast)
> Einstein (smart)
> Lightspeed (fast)
>
> Thoughts?
>

[ringe]

First, I totally love this small app, I'm going to depend on it.

On 10 Des, 15:22, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I really like gnak or gnack or knack (" A clever, expedient way of doing
> something."), but all of these are confusing to pronounce; I think most
> people would pronounce gnak "guh-nack", and knack "kuh-nack". Thoughts?

I would really, really recommend that you avoid g-something and k-
something names unless the word genuinely has the g or k letter as the
first. The amount of software out there starting like that to show
their relation to GNOME or KDE is disgusting. I hate it. Check out the
lovely tool called "gscan2pdf" - what incredibly horrible name!

I'm all for Krev's final suggestion: Trigger. (That's a +1) Nothing
more. The eventuality of this app becoming an official piece of GNOME
doesn't make it worthwhile to include GNOME in the name. Stay simple.
Use only one, recognizable word. I kind of associate this tool with
Tracker: http://www.gnome.org/projects/tracker/

This is the only project I found with a quick search using the trigger
name: http://lhcb-trig.web.cern.ch/lhcb-trig/

There seems to be a few software companies with Trigger in their name,
though.

[David Siegel]

From Jeremy Hendrickson:

I really like accio, as in accio firebolt ( from Harry Potter)
See this definition. http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_a.html
"Causes an object to fly to the caster, even over quite some distance; the target object is said to have been Summoned. It would seem that the caster must know at least the general location of the object Summoned."

BTW, really love the app, keep up the good work.

[Richard Harding]

David Siegel wrote:
> From Jeremy Hendrickson:
>
> I really like accio, as in accio firebolt ( from Harry Potter)
> See this definition. http://www.hp-lexicon.org/magic/spells/spells_a.html
> "Causes an object to fly to the caster, even over quite some distance;
> the target object is said to have been Summoned. It would seem that
> the caster must know at least the general location of the object
> Summoned."
>
> BTW, really love the app, keep up the good work.
>

You know what, I can really roll with this. I like it and it keeps to
the magic idea that I think a lot of us really liked.

Rick

[David Siegel]

How is it pronounced? "Ak-see-oh" or "ach-ee-oh"?

David

[David Siegel]

From Wikipedia (where else?):

Accio (Summoning Charm)

Pronunciation: Various suggestions have been made

['ɑkkio] (AK-ee-o) - classical Latin (film)

['ɑksio] (AK-see-o) - (audio book, video game)

['æsio] (AH-see-o) - (Scholastic) English

Description: This charm summons an object to the caster, potentially over a significant distance ^[2].

Seen/Mentioned: First mentioned in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire , Harry summons his broom to complete the First Task of the Triwizard Tournament ^[GF Ch.20]. Later in the same book Harry summons a Portkey he can't reach to escape from the Battle in the Graveyard. Also seen in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows to try to summon Horcruxes, and Harry even tries to summon a falling Hagrid, and later, his glasses, to comical effects ^[DH Ch.4].

Suggested Etymology: The Latin word accio means "I call" or "I summon". ^[3]

You know, I'm not a big Harry Potter fan, but I like this name. It's short and very simple, non-violent, androgynous. I'd like a definitive answer on pronunciation. I'm not a fan of the classical Latin pronounciation. I like the English "AH-see-o" or "AK-see-o".

David

[Richard Harding]

David Siegel wrote:
>
>
> From Wikipedia (where else?):
>
>
> /Accio/ (Summoning Charm)
>
> *Pronunciation:* Various suggestions have been made

>
> ['ɑkkio] (AK-ee-o) - classical Latin (film)
> ['ɑksio] (AK-see-o) - (audio book, video game)
> ['æsio] (AH-see-o) - (Scholastic) English
>

> *Description:* This charm summons an object to the caster,
> potentially over a significant distance^ [2]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accio#_note-BigRead> .
> *Seen/Mentioned:* First mentioned in /Harry Potter and the Goblet
> of Fire
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire>/,

> Harry summons his broom to complete the First Task of the
> Triwizard Tournament

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triwizard_Tournament>^ [GF Ch.20]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire>

> . Later in the same book Harry summons a Portkey he can't reach to

> escape from the Battle in the Graveyard. Also seen in / Harry

> Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince>/
> and /Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows>/

> to try to summon Horcruxes, and Harry even tries to summon a
> falling Hagrid, and later, his glasses, to comical effects

> ^[DH Ch.4]
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows> .
> *Suggested Etymology:* The Latin word /accio/ means "I call" or "I
> summon". ^[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accio#_note-SCL>

>
> You know, I'm not a big Harry Potter fan, but I like this name. It's
> short and very simple, non-violent, androgynous. I'd like a definitive
> answer on pronunciation. I'm not a fan of the classical Latin
> pronounciation. I like the English "AH-see-o" or "AK-see-o".
>
> David
>

lol, I've always thought it was the first one. Which just had to be the
one you didn't like.

Rick

[David Siegel]

Maybe we could use an alternate spelling, like "axio".

David

[evan.m...@gmail.com]

This may have been discussed already, but I really don't mind the name
"Do" for the project as a whole. It fits well with the program's
purpose and is fairly catchy, in my opinion.

[David Siegel]

Yes, staying with "Do" is definitely an option - we'll probably drop "GNOME" though.

David

[evan.m...@gmail.com]

Exactly what I was thinking. It feels like the kind of name that might
seem odd or dumb at first, but would eventually grow on people.

On Dec 12, 5:42 pm, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, staying with "Do" is definitely an option - we'll probably drop "GNOME"
> though.
>
> David
>

> On Dec 12, 2007 8:41 PM, evan.meag...@gmail.com <evan.meag...@gmail.com>

[DAZ]

On Dec 13, 12:45 am, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe we could use an alternate spelling, like "axio".

I like it! Lots of possibilities for a logo too.

[Sam]

What about GNOME Go? Just popped in my head...

[Mike McWay]

I like Accio, its different and describes the function perfectly.
'Do' could catch on, but its also awful for discoverability since it
would be very difficult to search for.

[euxneks]

I really like Do, every time I try to come up with something catchier,
Do just blows it away - however, I have taken to pronouncing it ala
"Dough", like you would in Japanese -- "do" roughly translates to
"way of doing something" - ala Karate-do, Judo, Kendo. - so, you could
keep the name, just write it with an umlaut, ala "dō"

Kinda exotic, but still down to earth. =)

On Oct 21, 8:38 pm, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We really need a name for our project. I kind of like Mercury, and so does
> Moshe, although I think we still can do better. Ian doesn't like Mercury.
> Will you guys share your thoughts?
>
> David

[SWS]

How about Catalyst or Catalysis?

Meaning:

1) A substance, usually used in small amounts relative to the
reactants, that modifies and increases the rate of a reaction.
2) One that precipitates a process or event, especially without being
involved in or changed by the consequences:

[David Siegel]

30 seconds on Google turned up at least four other software products using the name "Catalyst." "Catalysis" is too unfriendly - it sounds very uncomfortable, like "the virus caused irreparable catalysis--the poor boy will probably never breathe on his own again."

David

[SWS]

It may sound uncomfortable or unfriendly, but I assure you you would
not be here without catalysis! How about "whip"?

On Dec 15, 10:26 pm, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 30 seconds on Google turned up at least four other software products using
> the name "Catalyst." "Catalysis" is too unfriendly - it sounds very
> uncomfortable, like "the virus caused irreparable catalysis--the poor boy
> will probably never breathe on his own again."
>
> David
>

[Makario]

I was going to suggest Mercury as well. Perhaps great minds do indeed
think alike.

[russ]

"DOMercury" Windows Launcher

http://www.odierno.com/domercury/

[Richard Harding]

russ wrote:
> "DOMercury" Windows Launcher
>
> http://www.odierno.com/domercury/
>
>

Anyone remember the movie Big? What about Zoltar for a name? Kind of
magic fortune teller idea? Once Do starts doing the learning of what
you're looking for I like the idea of the fortune teller and the name
rolls off the tongue pretty well.

I can't find anything software related that uses the name in a quick
google search.

Rick

[Alex Wilber]

I also like accio. My friends actually use it quite a lot - in place
of "Pass me the salt", they say "Accio salt", and in general, as if by
magic, someone will oblige.

I've always heard it pronounced AK-ee-o. Having not read the books I
was quite surprised to see the spelling. To me the spelling accio
definitely implies a pronunciation of AK-see-o.

Incidentally I also agree that the name "Do" is in fact quite good.

[James S. Walker]

If we like "Do" but worried about discoverability, we could consider "Done".
A bit lame tho, I know. On that note we could go for "gogo" as in "go
go gadget helicopter".

[Evan Meagher]

That would work. Might get some added appeal from the GTD crowd.

On Dec 21, 8:14 am, "James S. Walker" <jswal...@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:
> If we like "Do" but worried about discoverability, we could consider "Done".
> A bit lame tho, I know. On that note we could go for "gogo" as in "go
> go gadget helicopter".
>

[philipashlock]

A few more Swahili (according to the Kamusi Project)

English: go/do/act
Swahili: enda

English: go for
Swahili: endea

English: ask for
Swahili: omba, ombea, taka, takia

English: quick
Swahili: kasi

English: wisdom
Swahili: busara (derived from arabic)

English: become wise
Swahili: tabasuri

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Other suggestions

Omnus - derived from omniscient
GoDo or "Go Do"

On Dec 21, 8:14 am, "James S. Walker" <jswal...@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:

> If we like "Do" but worried about discoverability, we could consider "Done".
> A bit lame tho, I know. On that note we could go for "gogo" as in "go
> go gadget helicopter".
>

[philipashlock]

http://www.kamusiproject.org/cgi-bin/lookup.cgi?Word=busara&EngP=0

just noticed that "busara" is a powerful and fitting Swahili word, the
english translations not only include wisdom, but also:

adroitness, acumen, intention, astuteness, foresight, sagacity,
prudence, common sense, and tact

though many of the four and five letter swahili words from the
previous post (like "enda") tend to be a little catchier. I also like
how the translation of "enda" means to do or to act, but in english it
connotes the word "end" in a verb form, like saying "accomplish"

[David Siegel]

"busara" sounds like "basura", the spanish word for trash. :)

[philipashlock]

i know, i live near an excellent thai restaraunt called busara and
people always crack jokes about that. But whatever, i think the
swahili words for "do" are better anyway.

awesome piece of software by the way. Much thanks!

On Nov 18, 9:10 am, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "busara" sounds like "basura", the spanish word for trash. :)
>

[David Siegel]

How about ¡ándale! ?
I know this is a bit of a non-sequitur, but how about Indigo ?

David

On Dec 25, 2007 6:23 PM, philipashlock <philip...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i know, i live near an excellent thai restaraunt called busara and
> people always crack jokes about that. But whatever, i think the
> swahili words for "do" are better anyway.
>
> awesome piece of software by the way. Much thanks!
>
>

[Caleb]

I like indigo I was just about to suggest indigo :)

On Dec 26, 4:32 pm, "David Siegel" <djsie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about ¡ándale! ?
> I know this is a bit of a non-sequitur, but how about Indigo ?
>
> David
>