Name the Web Monitoring Platform

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Documentation and project-wide issues for the Website Monitoring project (a.k.a. "Scanner")

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Name the Web Monitoring Platform #84

Closed weatherpattern closed 6 years ago

weatherpattern commented 6 years ago

We've been saying UI or the platform, and it's sort hard to say. What should we call this thing?

danielballan commented 6 years ago

Riffing on the word "watch"...

Watcher (already a software project, but not in a related domain)
Watchword (doesn't seem to be taken by any prominent software projects)

lightandluck commented 6 years ago

"Monitor" makes me think of monitor lizards = Komodo

jschell42 commented 6 years ago

"Moni" is one of the mascots, in fact, short for Monitor Lizard. There's also been talk of "Scanner" (inspired by my Calico cat, Scanner, whose name comes from both Philip K. Dick and her "scanning" vision due to her being cross-eyed).

danielballan commented 6 years ago

On Slack, "Scanner" was chosen.