[FFmpeg-devel] [VOTE] please vote for our NGO name

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:45:41PM +0200, Kostya wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:31:59PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 05:27:16PM +0200, Kostya wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:59:29PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 04:52:02PM +0200, Kostya wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:36:42PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > > > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:23:15AM -0500, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > * FFm.org (Foundation for Free Multimedia)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Freebie Flash movies foundation?
> > > > > 
> > > > > That would be .flv.org or .f4v.org, this one is named after FFserver own
> > > > > format.
> > > > 
> > > > I just tried to express how much I think the name sucks..
> > > 
> > > You seem to be not a programmer at all, otherwise you'd know these are
> > > rather decent names we can come with. Or had you proposed better name
> > > majority liked at first sight?
> > 
> > It seems my brain works unlike a programmer's.  Compilation of this
> > sentence into something my brain can handle fails at the syntax stage:
> > 
> > syntax error: 'Unable to assign non-ambiguous semantics to input'
> 
> To rephrase it: have you proposed a better name?

Yes.  But there is really no need, it's the worst name from a long list.

> any objective criteria for judging those names?

The names should not give a wrong impression to 99% of people.
They should not be specific to FFmpeg.

Diego