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

[Michael Adam]

On 2015-04-01 at 15:48 +0200, Niels de Vos wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 06:59:15PM +0530, 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.
> 
> My preference goes to Gluster, to capture the whole community.

I also would prefer Gluster over GlusterDS.

regarding the slogan, I am thinking about something that
incorporates

SOS - [S]cale [O]ut [S]torage ...

Cheers - Michael
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