I just started to work on the first ticket about revamping the accounting service. As part of the ticket we have the opportunity to come up with a new name (or not?) for it.
To participate in the brainstorming put your naming proposal in this spreadsheet and vote on any of the existing proposals.
If you would like to vote, increase the counter next to the proposal. Please vote only ONCE. We will have a poll with the “top 5 best” naming proposal.
Although I would like to invite everyone to the brainstorming, to be able to finish the ticket in realistic time, we need some deadlines.
The deadline for proposing new names: 2021-03-25 23:59 UTC
The deadline for voting on the poll (starting on 2021-03-26): 2021-04-01 23:59 UTC
Let’s vote!
FTR: This could be moved to public discussion in a new category later.
Also, this is more of a product & user interaction topic, so this is something I’d rather let @Ali and @cassie manage. It would make sense to let them become familiar with the application first, and handle this as part of putting together the marketing site, and the communication on the application. In any case, I would discuss this as part of the scope of the discoveries and agree on an approach to determine the name, before starting a forum thread and a poll.
Threads like this can still be public from the start - there is a “Discussions - Public” category.
@daniel Based on Xavier’s reply, I’d say that the collected names would be good for input but voting shouldn’t happen as it would have no effect (yet). What do you think?
The “public” app will initially concentrate on converting timelogs into invoices, and paying remote teams. To get a better idea of what we may offer (if we get public buy-in) check out the landing page’s copy.
Now we need you to flex your creative muscles! Please add some name ideas to this thread before Tuesday (31 August), or let me know which names appeal to you. Once we have all your ideas, I’ll add the names to a Typeform so we can have a vote!
Since the forum response time is up to 2 weeks, not everybody will have time to participate. Maybe make it 2 weeks from now?
If we let a long time pass from the decision to the domain registration, someone else could register it (this thread is public). So maybe the final votes should be private.
I don’t know whether Typeform survey can be limited to OpenCraft users.
If it isn’t, then anyone on the Internet could participate (this may be good. Anyone can participate in this forum thread too).
You could use a separate forum thread, private, for information that shouldn’t be shared yet, like the link to the form, or the chosen name. You can later change the thread’s visibility to public, after you have bought the domain.
Anyway, I hope there be just a low chance of domain squatters watching our forum.
I like Luca, but is there a theme behind the name or is it something that got stuck. I am watching VIkings a lot and something from Norse Mythology stuck with me so I would like to suggest Vanir.
@farhaan Out of interest… the father of modern accounting is Luca Pacioli, who in 1494 first described the system of double-entry bookkeeping used by Venetian merchants in his Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita
Thank you to everyone who has participated in the naming of the billing app
I know I mentioned we’d vote on the name, BUT it looks like “Luca” is the clear winner from the feedback. So a vote doesn’t seem necessary.
But, if anyone is totally against the name, or thinks we should have a vote, please let me know. We need to have a couple of popular names for a vote to work though.
