[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Got a slogan idea?

[Lalatendu Mohanty]

On 04/01/2015 06:59 PM, Vijay Bellur wrote:
> On 04/01/2015 05:44 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
>> Hello Gluster Ant People!
>>
>> Right now, if you go to gluster.org, you see our current slogan in giant
>> text:
>>
>>     Write once, read everywhere
>>
>> However, no one seems to be super-excited about that slogan. It doesn't
>> really help differentiate gluster from a portable hard drive or a
>> paperback book. I am going to work with Red Hat's branding geniuses to
>> come up with some possibilities, but sometimes, the best ideas come from
>> the people directly involved with a project.
>>
>> What I am saying is that if you have a slogan idea for Gluster, I want
>> to hear it. You can reply on list or send it to me directly. I will
>> collect all the proposals (yours and the ones that Red Hat comes up
>> with) and circle back around for community discussion in about a month
>> or so.
>>
>
> I also think that we should start calling ourselves Gluster or 
> GlusterDS (Gluster Distributed Storage) instead of GlusterFS by 
> default. We are certainly not file storage only, we have object, api & 
> block interfaces too and the FS in GlusterFS seems to imply a file 
> storage connotation alone.
>
> -Vijay

+1 for Gluster. I like GlusterDS too (in the present context). But 
Gluster is more simplistic, generic and not oriented towards any 
particular type of storage. Which will be better for long term IMO (in 
case Gluster becomes a clustered storage in distant future).

-Lala

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