[indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] A branding proposal.

[Sriram Narayanan]

On 11/3/07, Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> wrote:
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> A proposal:
>
> - Change naming from Opensolaris to 'Opensolaris G' or K or X
> (standing for gnome, kde, xfce.. GKX are just suggestions, use
> giraffe, kite, Xenu, Gnome, KDE, XFCE, or whatever)
> - Indiana goes on to become Opensolaris G

Sound like a plan - or at least the skeleton of one :)

> - i. Define a set of core requirements that allows a distro to be
> called Opensolaris <Word>.
> - ii. Define a set of requirements that allow distro to be called
> "based on opensolaris"
> - iii. Define a set of requirements that allow distro to be called
> "compatible with opensolaris"
>  (The requirements for i will be significantly stricter than ii, which
> is higher than iii).
>  (i) can be used by distributions directly aimed at the desktop/server
> community, (ii) and (iii) for DC created distros and appliance/custom
> distros for specific purposes. We'll be setting high expectations for
> (i) as they'll be used by a large audience)

This sounds good too. In the Java space, there are the TCK (Tech
Compliance Kits - I think) and there are reference implementations,
and independent implementations - all of which have to pass the TCK.

> - All of the above will be privileges. A creator can go ahead and name
> his distro anything else if he so chooses.

I'm reminded of "Belenix - innovating on OpenSolaris" :)

-- Sriram