What name do you like best for a non-profit #FOSS community for Ham Radio? Think Apache incubator but for Ham plus other open-source services and resources for the community.
FYI I have both the dot com and dot org as well as the hyphenated and non hyphenated versions of the below. Please mention which variant you prefer in comments.
I hated both choices. I'd hesitate anything with "ham" or similar in it because at this point it just looks stupid and like a joke only one person laughs at.
Just spitballing:
Free and Libre Amateur Radio Alliance. FLARA.
Open Source Amateur Radio Alliance. OSARA
Free and Libre Open Amateur Radio Alliance. FLOARA
Tux Open Radio Society. TORS
Computer/Coding Collaboration for Amateur Radio. CCAR
Amateur Radio on Open Source Systems. AROSS (play on ARISS)
Are you a significant contributor to both FLOSS and HAM? Floss has a history of cute mascots and names.. so I suspect someone in floss may appreciate the creative play on words more so than a non-floss ham operator who is used to windows programs that look like they were written for windows 3.1 with the hot dog theme :)
@freemo That is a hard question. Made harder by domain squatters.
I have no problem with fanciful. (I once named a serious fintech project after a cartoon character of my childhood.)
May go more random? Firing up a passward generator I wrote (a la https://xkcd.com/936) I get match-popcorn-menu and dance-gyro-alfred and proxy-yellow-soviet and side-scale-bonjour and harbor-lava-random…
A pair of such words can be vivid, have nice allusions, and be available: popcorn-lava.com isn't taken…
@freemo My problem is with ham==pork. While I don't have a problem with pork a large fraction of the people on this planet do. If people found popcorn offensive, then that would be a bad idea, too.
I dont know anyone who "has a problem with pork" or who is offended by the mere talk of porks existance, or even that it tastes good... Only thing i can think you might mean is jews and Musslims dont eat pork.. which is true, but they arent offended by the mention of pork either....
I guess id have to ask a religious jewish ham operator (or musslim) what their response would be... would be an interesting data point.
@freemo I suspect that even some non-observant Jews who love their bacon cheeseburgers maybe don't eat them on Rosh Hashanah and might prefer a pun on the meaning of "amateur" and not on "ham".
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