[hydra-dev] A name for hydra?

Tim Panton thp at westhawk.co.uk
Fri Apr 2 08:06:01 CDT 2010


There is a school of thought that says you have to nail your colors to the mast, and 
put 'digium' in the name - that brand association says that you are _absolutely_ serious about this 
project.

I personally like 'Digia' - but that name is probably taken.

T.

On 2 Apr 2010, at 13:59, David Ruggles wrote:

> I know that wasn't necessarily serious ;-) but ....
> 
> I actually like the name Hydra.
> 
> Hydra was a networked series of highly redundant nodes that was fault
> tolerant to the point that it was almost impossible to turn it off
> when you wanted to, much less on accident. From the research I did I
> believe the last Hydra node is actually still running somewhere out in
> the world.
> 
> Anyway, that was a light hearted look at Greek mythology, but I do
> like the name Hydra as a one word concept of what we're developing.
> 
> As an aside, how did the name "Asterisk" come about?
> 
> On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 4:18 AM, Alec Davis <sivad.a at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>> No thought at all went into this :-)
>> 
>> Any Language Extensible Core.
>> Asterisk Language Extensible Core.
>> Asterisk Limitless Extensible Coprocessor.
>> Asterisk Limitless EXchange.
>> 
>> Alec Davis
>> 
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