[haiku] Re: From OpenBeOS to Haiku
- From: Rob Judd <haiqu@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:10:18 +0000
DarkWyrm wrote:
Colin Günther wrote:
I'd like to get some infos about the time when Haiku's name was
"born". Are there any Discussions about project name suggestions? Was
there a vote about the name to choose? What happened to the content of
www.openbeos.org? Besides wikipedia there is little stuff about
Haiku's history.
Appreciate your help
I'll pass along what I remember. The contest to decide the name started
off with people submitting ideas. Michael Phipps -- and some of the
other developers IIRC -- decided on the top 5 names and then the
community voted on the top 3 names they liked best. According to
Michael, the name Haiku was mostly not the top pick, but in people's top
3, so it became the name.
We had our first convention in Columbus and it was named WalterCon
because it was where the name was going to be announced and they needed
a name for the convention until the announcement.
It almost got called `Walter`.
Rob
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