<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">why acronyms at all?<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I think that the principles open source folks have focused on is 'cool naming' is "everything"</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So you have very odd names in that field but they are cool.</DIV><DIV>-kaliya</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 18, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Ralph Copleman wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm one person who has no interest in royal noses or royal anything, but I definitely support the underlying notion, so I propose, instead of "Royal Order of Nose Followers", we try one of these...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">DONT - Democratic Order of Nose Travelers</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OUF - Order of Unfunded Facilitators</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">POCOSO - Proud Order of Community-Oriented Space Openers</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">COOS - Community-Oriented Open Spacers</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">OPENS - Organization Purposely Elevating Novel Spaces</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">JOURNEY - Just Opening Unused Resources Nearly Everywhere, Yessiree</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">BURP - Brilliant Use of the Right People</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; 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