[Gluster-users] Got a slogan idea?

Vijay Bellur vbellur at redhat.com
Wed Apr 1 13:29:15 UTC 2015


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





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