Renaming the project

[Keats]

With WordPress starting to heavily promote their Gutenberg editor, SEO will become impossible for this project.

I'm open to changing the name, the current requirements are:

• simple to type, binary name must not exist in windows/linux/osx already
• a cheap domain name for the docs must be available
• no significant open-source project with the same name
• no obvious weird meaning in languages

Current ideas:

• zola: from Emile Zola, a french writer - 4 letters is pretty good. Downside is Hugo is also a french writer
• kuo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shen_Kuo

Changing the name means also changing every package manager + netlify

[onelson]

I cannot stress enough that this is a joke, but what about Mahoney (as per the Steve Guttenberg role in the Police Academy movies)?

[Freaky]

How about a Chinese writer? Shen Kuo wrote extensively about movable type printing, amongst many, many other things, and while Shen is a programming language, kuo looks free. Wordsafety.com warns about a similarity to Portuguease "cu" (asshole).

Bi Sheng invented the first movable type printer. sheng seems free.

Wang Zhen improved on movable type. zhen seems free, and is also closely resembles "Zen".

[Keats]

I like Kuo but this guy makes me feel a bit inadequate:

Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, geologist, zoologist, botanist, pharmacologist, agronomist, archaeologist, ethnographer, cartographer, encyclopedist, general, diplomat, hydraulic engineer, inventor, academy chancellor, finance minister, governmental state inspector, poet, and musician.

sheng and zhen sound good as well.

I also like vin, the name of the main character of the Mistborn serie but people might think I'm naming it after myself..

[RealOrangeOne]

I also like vin

I worry people may typo this as vim, and get very confused why their site looks like a text editor 😂

[Keats]

I forgot the existence of vim :( Disregard vin

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[piedoom]

i like zola :) easy to type, easy to read, and gophers shouldn't have a monopoly on french writers. kuo is nice too. I might think more about sheng and zhen as they could be difficult to translate from spoken -> type. (e.g., "download 'zhen'! it's great" - "Okay! X-E-N, right?")

I'm not sure if you listen to the new rustacean podcast, but they recently namedropped gutenberg in their community update as well.

I would support a rename, though. Gutenberg already has difficulty appearing in search engines with Wordpress, and since they both exist in the same domain (writing/software) it's a good idea to change it IMO.

[Keats]

I'm not sure if you listen to the new rustacean podcast, but they recently namedropped gutenberg in their community update as well.

Thanks for the warning, I'll listen to it tomorrow!

I would support a rename, though. Gutenberg already has difficulty appearing in search engines with Wordpress, and since they both exist in the same domain (writing/software) it's a good idea to change it IMO.

Since no one seemed to like WordPress Gutenberg, I was kinda hoping they would rebrand it :p

Added kuo to the main list as I like it a lot but zola is still my favourite so far

[piedoom]

I forgot to include the page mentioned. AFAIK it's fairly popular for Rust-peeps but I don't think that it should be a problem - I would just recommend opening up a PR to the show notes I listed if you end up changing the name/link :). And Zola is my favorite as well!

[Keats]

cc people related to having gutenberg in package managers so they are in the loop:

@ilovezfs @Calinou @r15ch13 @bfontaine

[Calinou]

I like Zola, it's short but is still related to its origin (a static site generator).