Naming It Pie Discussion
This page is for discussing the name of Pie for this project/effort.
What do you think of the name of this project/process should be? Pie? Echo? See NameIt for the open poll.
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Pie (Not an acronym -- just easy as...) [TimothyAppnel] [TimBray]
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may read/sound like the french for "foot" ("pied"), but only to french-speaking people... [XavierBorderie] Spanish for foot [GuilleBe] That gives it a reall international foot [FrançoisGranger]
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Like most garage band names, the name "Pie" only sounds good when you're stoned. General tip for naming things in the Age of Google: Pick something that won't turn up a bazillion false hits without requiring enough prior knowledge to qualify your search.[JamesBritt]
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Yeah, what happened to the ground rule, "Do a search on google"? Anyhow, voting should involve other proposals, too. [ChrisWilper]
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Public Information Exchange ? François Granger
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I like this one as well, especially that it abbreviates to "PIE", of course. [AsbjornUlsberg]
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The name Pie started out as Publishing Interface and Exchange. Not caring for acronyms it was dropped to just Pie. [TimothyAppnel]
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I like this. I think its useful to have a TLA when talking to Mr. Safe [KellanElliottMcCrea]
A quick due dilligence search on Google and Sourceforge shows the name to largely unencumbered, except perhaps for an unfortunate tendency to associate it with word "apple". [KellanElliottMcCrea]
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There is a 2 week old (zero activity) p2p project on Sourceforge named PIE: Private Information Exchange. Shouldn't be too much conflict there.
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PieML is the Proto-Indo-European Mailing List, a moderately active YahooGroup with archives going back to 2001. (don't know if anyone thought of using that or not)
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Other then that searches like "pie web", "pie syndication", "pie white paper", "pie standard", turn up nothing relevant.
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http://purl.org/pie is available
How about PIE, and acronym for PIE Is Easy. [?]
Perhaps a connection to "pied type" would be intriguing. Pied type harks back to the days when typesetting was done with little pieces of lead that had letters on them. Pied type is when your painstakingly-sorted lead bits get all mixed together by accident. So... Unpied, perhaps, given that we are trying to sort out a whole bunch of previously-unsorted little weblog bits?
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OK, but please don't extend the analogy into the physical model. I don't want to see elements named "slice" or "helping". [MarkPilgrim]
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Plus nothing about "PIEce of cake" please. Or jokes about Sam being the PIEd piper. [ChristianCrumlish]
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Also taking a "PIE in the face" or this being a "well rounded" format/protocol etc. [TimothyAppnel]
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Nor any inappropriate geo-politically incorrect references such as ?American as Apple PIE?. [StanFinley]
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Piiieeeeee.... Weebl and Bob love pie... [MarkNottingham] (+anonymous)
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No GrouPIEs either, ok? [ChristianRomney]
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Pie is a common word so using it in a conversation or in sentences will confuse people. I prefer a simple yet uncommon words like WOS (as in Wide Open Syndication) so I can coin clever mottos like WOS-Up! [DonPark]
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Hmm. "Pie isn't precise enough". And I can see this name coming close to fork... Yeah, certianly enough headlines in this one, I say go for it [Aquarion]
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What about PieType, then? [AsbjornUlsberg]
PhilWolff: I'm concerned that pie development will be easier to fork, but we can resolve those problems with a bake-off. Is each post a slice? Alternate content flavors, the fillings? Extensions, a la mode? XML the crust? Pies are perishable, with 'best if used by dates'. We can replace the little orange XML badges with pie tins. And we can visualize the protocol with... pie charts. Maybe it's really half-baked. Aggregators eat pie. As long as it feeds me, I'm gonna shut my pie-whole.
HarryBurns: I would be proud to partake of your pecan pie.
JamesCerra: Instead of calling the project, "Pie", why not just call it "Pie Syndication Format"? As stated above the terms aren't associated with anything on Google (so nobody should get upset). Of course, the next version should be called "Rho Syndication Format," but I like going backwards with "Omicron Syndication Format."