On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Rohan Garg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey everyone > So after a brief discussion with Riddell and Harald, there seems to be > enough precedent to bring this up again. > > Basically, this is a RFC to rebrand our release of Kubuntu with Plasma > Workspaces 2 and Frameworks 5 ( as and when that happens ). So instead > of calling it Kubuntu or Kubuntu Next , we call it Awesome OS ( or > whatever name we can decide upon ). The reason why we should do this > are twofold : > > a) Kubuntu contributes more heavily to the Ubuntu brand than we get back
We see it that way, but I'm not sure Canonical does. And Canonical/Sabdfl is the group with the lawyers. > b) Whenever Ubuntu gets bad press, so do we, just because we have the > 'ubuntu' substring in our brand True, but I think as long as we remain a flavor, we have to take the good with the bad. > So, for our Kubuntu + KF 5 + PW 2 ISO I propose we move away from the > Kubuntu brand and choose a new name. Once we have traction with that > brand, we discontinue with the Kubuntu + KDE 4 ISO / Brand and switch > over to "Awesome OS" as being a flavour of Ubuntu. > > Cheers > > Rohan Garg I'm all for giving a great code name to our Kubuntu Next/Timelord/AwesomeOS PPA. But that will be a codename for us and other geeks. It is really hard to make your name a brand, and we're *just now* getting there with Kubuntu. To abandon that brand would be foolhardy, in my opinion. So let the bikeshedding begin on a wonderful code name for our next experimental release. Personally, I favor Timelord, since it will take us to the future in a blue box. :-) Awesome, Valorie -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-council Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-council More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
