Better name

[wrought]

discuss!

ideas:

• groupthink
• granola
• decide-together
• work-together
• good-faith-collaboration
• decision procedure
• decision process
• decision-maker
• decision-hacker

[wrought]

• nutritional yeast

[mitar]

cc @wrought, @mkanwal, @subjective, @sunnysideofthescreen, @jmrtns

[mitar]

• comb (we comb through ideas to find good ones)
• feces (facilitator supreme, results of cloacas working together)

[mitar]

What about simply: "mot"? Short, simple.

[mitar]

More:

• motak
• tokam
• omot

[radiolarian]

clowncil

[wrought]

I still like "groupthink"...

[mitar]

I am probably going with "mot". Any objections?

[wrought]

I don't feel compelled toward mot, and it's your project, so if it's gotta be mot, I can't really stop you.

one last shot though:

"meetingrobot"

It's accurate to what it is, and unique enough for no good search results to show up.

[wrought]

"councilrobot" might be even better

[mitar]

"motbot"?

[mitar]

I don't feel compelled toward mot, and it's your project, so if it's gotta be mot, I can't really stop you.

It is the best one from all I heard until now.

"groupthink" has a negative connotation. And also GitHub name is taken.

[ghost]

I like the word "assembly" because it refers to a political gathering but also alludes to computing/programming.

[mitar]

Hm, I think Googling "assembly" would not find this app for some time.

"coassembly"?

[sunnysideofthescreen]

objection to “mot” but i don’t have much of a replacement, it just sounds funny (not in the good way).

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[mitar]

It means "word" in French.

[sunnysideofthescreen]

cloyne canvass ?

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[mitar]

I think it should be something general, not necessary linked to Cloyne (other communities can use it as well).

[ghost]

So, for a collaborative editor with voting, I came up with the name "votepad" (vote + notepad). I have the .org domain.

That'd be a good name for the Massive online collaborative decision-making system. But that's not the scope of this project, right? (It's been a while since I last ran it.)

[sunnysideofthescreen]

what if you called it just that: “assembly”?

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[mitar]

But that's not the scope of this project, right?

No, or at least not yet. Maybe in the future some feature can resemble that.

[sunnysideofthescreen]

@jakelerner votes "assemblance"

[mitar]

This sounds like "assemblage".

Tell him to try harder

[mitar]

"methink"?

[sunnysideofthescreen]

veto. (you're not a 12th century knight-jake)

[sunnysideofthescreen]

assemblage: "Assemblage theory asserts that, within a body, the relationships of component parts are not stable and fixed; rather, they can be displaced and replaced within and among other bodies, thus approaching systems through relations of exteriority" (wiki)

[ghost]

Deleuze and Guattari is a rich source of edgy software names. :-)

There is also "assembler", which makes sense and might be easier to find than both "assembly" and "assemblage". The only problem is that it already refers to a type of software.

[mitar]

So, the problem with those words written with double s and stuff like that they are not really global. People in non-English speaking countries will have issues knowing how to read them.

[mitar]

"peerthink"?

[mitar]

"lokom" "tamo" "embler"

[mitar]

cc @jure

[sunnysideofthescreen]

peerthink is cool 👍

[mitar]

More ideas from Jake:

• commonsense
• thinkabout

[mitar]

cc @CdavM

[mitar]

Ha ha, the list of episodes really aligns with this app: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinkabout_%28U.S._TV_series%29

[camillevilla]

...how about... Sheaf? Like when you harvest a bunch of wheat and tie it together.

[ghost]

"Sheaf" is elegant. It also refers to a concept in algebraic geometry:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Sheaf.html

[ghost]

"Sheaf" can also be a playful variation of "chief", since the app is a facilitator but not a boss.

[mitar]

• okio
• raeo
• ateo

[ghost]

okio is a project with 2k stars: https://github.com/square/okio

ateo means atheist in Spanish and Italian. :-)

[mitar]

How do you say "spark" in some other language?

[ghost]

• faísca (Portuguese)
• chispa (Spanish, Portuguese)

My favorite is:

• ignis (Latin for fire)

[jure]

What we really need to settle this is a kind of online voting system, something that would modernize this archaic decision making process.

But to continue in the way of the old masters, I really liked the "commonsense" thread, but perhaps to offer some kind of analogy to the internet introduced "crowdsource" or "crowdfunding": Crowdsense would be a good option.

I dislike the foreign language options since they're not easy to remember, mostly, unless you know the language they're from, which is a bit exclusive :)

Also, stumbled across a relevant illustration that I really liked:

[source: http://www.economist.com/node/11848182]

[ninabreznik]

I like names that kind of describe or at least offer the association with what the project is about (a metaphor) so I can store it in my brain more easily :)

So the words describing the project are: groupthink, decide-together, work-together, good-faith-collaboration, decision procedure, decision process, decision-maker, decision-hacker

So let's see some more ideas/combinations/metaphors:

• groupthink (saw it above, 2 syllables, memorable...) 👍
• peerThink (saw it above, 2 syllables, memorable...) 👍
• peerAction? (similar, but more about the benefits of working together)
• teamVote?
• voteBoost?

Some quick ideas... Otherwise, when I do brainstorming about names, my biggest friends are Google images search and good old Synonyms search http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/collaboration?s=t

Good luck with the project, we were also brainstorming a lot about similar thing, but more in the sense of co-owning and then co-deciding for sharing income, tasks, strategy etc.

[mkanwal]

+1 "sheaf"

[mitar]

What we really need to settle this is a kind of online voting system, something that would modernize this archaic decision making process.

You are right, we could put it through a vote through the system itself. ;-)

But I think we can also manage through GitHub, comments and also upvoting it supports now.

I like the "Crowdsense" idea, but "crowd" has negative connotation. Also, Wikipedia is not really "crowdsourcing", because that is more like "outsourcing". So in fact "crowd" is often opposite to community. In "crowd" you do work for somebody else. In community you do it for yourself.

"commonsense" I like because you can play with words and get "commons essence". :-)

[mitar]

Some more names proposed from the Cloyne community:

• cloynecouncil

• clomittee
• execloyne
• clonference
• cloncave
• online clonecil
• Quorum Corrall
• The Coup
• clouncil
• The Count of Monte Council
• Stewart
• Elizabeth
• Hell

[mitar]

• commondecide
• DecideTogether
• WeDecide
• ReachDecision
• ReachD
• GraspD
• decsense
• sense decision
• sensed
• desense

[mitar]

• sense bubble
• bubble sense
• essencesense
• crowdessence
• populus
• populus sense
• popul

[mitar]

• pleo
• plenus
• manipulus
• manus – means "hand", I really like it

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hand
(figuratively) bravery, valor
(figuratively) violence, fighting
handwriting
a side, part, faction
a stake (in dice)
a thrust with a sword
paw of an animal
trunk of an elephant
branch of a tree
(military, nautical) grappling hooks used to snare enemy vessels
group, company, host, multitude of people, especially of soldiers
labor
power, might  [quotations ▼]
(law) legal power of a man over his wife
(law) an arrest