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</table>Elrondhttps://wiki.mediagoblin.org/index.php?title=Why_GNU_MediaGoblin&diff=26&oldid=prevAether: separated as per design decisions page2011-08-02T04:28:57Z<p>separated as per design decisions page</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>==[[Chris Webber]] and [[Will Kahn-Greene]] on "Why GNU MediaGoblin":==<br />
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Chris came up with the name MediaGoblin. The name is pretty fun.<br />
It merges the idea that this is a Media hosting project with<br />
Goblin which sort of sounds like gobbling. Here's a piece of<br />
software that gobbles up your media for all to see.<br />
<br />
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin According to Wikipedia], a<br />
goblin is:<br />
<br />
:''"A legendary evil or mischievous illiterate creature, described<br />
:as grotesquely evil or evil-like phantom"''<br />
<br />
So are we evil? No. Are we mischievous or illiterate? Not<br />
really. So what kind of goblin are we thinking about? We're<br />
thinking about these goblins:<br />
{|<br />
|[[File:goblin.png | thumb |upright| alt=Cute goblin with a beret|Cute goblin with a beret. Illustrated by Chris Webber]]<br />
|[[File:snugglygoblin.png | thumb |upright| alt=Snuggly goblin with a beret.|Snuggly goblin. Illustrated by Karen Rustad]]<br />
|} .<br />
Those are pretty cute goblins. Those are the kinds of goblins<br />
we're thinking about.<br />
<br />
==Why GNU?==<br />
Chris started doing work on the project after thinking about it<br />
for a year. Then, after talking with Matt and Rob, it became an<br />
official [[GNU]] project. Thus we now call it GNU MediaGoblin.<br />
<br />
==Request==<br />
That's a lot of letters, though, so in the interest of brevity and<br />
facilitating easier casual conversation and balancing that with<br />
what's important to us, we have the following rules:<br />
<br />
#"GNU MediaGoblin" is the name we're going to use in all official capacities: web site, documentation, press releases.<br />
#In casual conversation, it's ok to use more casual names.<br />
#If you're writing about the project, we ask that you call it GNU MediaGoblin.<br />
#If you don't like the name, we kindly ask you to take a deep breath, think a happy thought about cute little goblins playing on a playground and taking cute pictures of themselves, and let it go (Will added this one.)<br />
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