Naming the DCC Component

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We need a name!

DCC is the organisational unit's acronym. It should not denote the software we'll be developing for this OU. So we need to find a name for this software component.

We've been using a mineral/rock naming scheme. Most names come from this list.

Please if have ideas, contribute them here as comments to this page.

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  1. Apr 23, 2009

    Martin Boulanger

    This sounds like an interesting name

    bonanza - an especially rich vein of precious oremineral vein, vein - a layer of ore between layers of rock

  2. Apr 23, 2009

    nlambert

    In the same vein as above: quarry: A quarry is a type of open-pit mine from which rock or minerals are extracted.

  3. Apr 23, 2009

    Martin Boulanger

    What about Klondike?

    Klondike (kl?n`d?k), region of Yukon Territory NW Canada, just E of the Alaska border. It lies around Klondike River, a small stream that enters the Yukon River from the east at Dawson. The discovery in 1896 of rich placer gold deposits in Bonanza (Rabbit) Creek, a tributary of the Klondike, caused the Klondike stampede of 1897-98.

    1. Apr 23, 2009

      Yannick Marcon

      oh yes, I like klondike, not for the sound, but for the canadian symbol, well suited with cpac project.

    2. Apr 24, 2009

      Philippe Laflamme

      I like!

    3. Apr 27, 2009

      Vincent Ferretti

      I'm not sure. I'm going to give many talks on this application and does it sound enough serious? OBiBa is already a bit funny.
      The Klondike Application .... Hum.

  4. Apr 29, 2009

    Yannick Marcon

    What about Mine ?

    • simple and sounds nice
    • mine of jade, quartz, ruby...
    • data mining
    • these data are mine
    • MINE for Mart In a NEtwork
    • MINE for Mine Is Not a minE
    • same in french and english
    • ...

    1. Apr 29, 2009

      Tony DeBat

      I like this one.

    2. Apr 29, 2009

      Philippe Laflamme

      I prefer quarry, suggested by Nancy, in this respect. Mine doesn't sound like a name, it sounds like... well... a mine!

      Quarry and mine have a similar meaning, but quarry sounds more like a name to me.

      1. Apr 29, 2009

        Yannick Marcon

        To my opinion quarry does not sound nice and only means what it means... A good name should allow several point of views.

  5. Apr 29, 2009

    Anonymous

    Other suggestions:

    HIGHGRADE - Rich ore. Selective mining of the best ore in a deposit. 

    MOTHERLODE - The starting place or origin of a metal. A vein which contains the original metal "in place". 

    ALLOY - A compound of two or more metals, usually produced by fusion. 

  6. Apr 29, 2009

    Dennis Spathis

    Okay, this is not a very creative name, but how about diamond?

     Advantages of this name:

    • It's not terribly long.
    • It begins with the letter "D" like "DCC" (easy to remember the association).
    • It's extremely hard, like the implementation of DCC is going to be (kidding).

  7. Apr 29, 2009

    Vincent Ferretti

    Do you like xyno? the reverse of Onyx. Does it sound good?

    look at http://www.xyno.org/

    1. Apr 29, 2009

      Yannick Marcon

      Too funny !

    2. Apr 30, 2009

      nlambert

      Julie likes xyno.  She suggests that it is the reverse strand of Onyx.  I like it too.  It's the mirror image of what we did in Onyx.

  8. Apr 30, 2009

    Anonymous

    What about Caldera?

    Caldera

    The large, basin-shaped crater at the top of a volcano. A caldera is formed when the original peak collapses into an empty chamber below.