Branding UBports: OS name / Project Logo / Project Name
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There's always Mobuntu (mobile + 'buntu)
I think I'd prefer something a bit more outside the box, though. Something creative that pinwheels from a stream of consciousness word association.
eg Niles > Nilesy > Nilesy-Wilesy > Wile E Coyote > The Coyote (from an old episode of Frasier)
Cell phone > Cell > Perfect Cell > Dragon Ball Z > Android Saga > Android > Red Ribbon Army > Red Robin > Red Robin OS! ( a few copyright infringements there)
I don't think I have the answer, but trying to push the discussion a little further.
Gesture McSwipeyFace OS?
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What about Open Orange Linux? Orange comes from color, that is mainly used in Ubuntu's theme and symbol. Or we can leave orange behind and use lemon or another fruit, because they are colorful and tasty.
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Yeah, and get sued by Orange carrier
I would go with something abstract or a single word used in everyday. And make it not contain "Open" or "OS". It's very generic in my opinion.
Unless we can stay with Ubuntu Touch, as this is recognizable an I am for sticking to this name as long as possible.
About Canonical letting the OS down - well, I think it is more important that they created Ubuntu Touch. Without them Ubports would not exist. And - so far - the OS is still Ubuntu, just became unofficial flavour. It is still planned to be upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 and not diverge away.
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@Mitu said in Branding UBports: OS name / Project Logo / Project Name:
Yeah, and get sued by Orange carrier
I would go with something abstract or a single word used in everyday. And make it not contain "Open" or "OS". It's very generic in my opinion.
Unless we can stay with Ubuntu Touch, as this is recognizable an I am for sticking to this name as long as possible.
About Canonical letting the OS down - well, I think it is more important that they created Ubuntu Touch. Without them Ubports would not exist. And - so far - the OS is still Ubuntu, just became unofficial flavour. It is still planned to be upgraded to Ubuntu 16.04 and not diverge away.FRENCH
Mitu a raison, si on peut garder UT, se serait l'idéal
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Mitu is right, if we can keep UT, would be the ideal -
One other this that I noticed when I looked at it again was the fact that the time on the two clocks is different in the picture. This does not give a good idea of consistency to anyone looking at it.
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Just to add another proposal:
"Community Based Operating System for Mobile Devices" or short: CoBOSMoD
And the logo should necessarily include an 'O' -
my suggestion is "TOUCHY"
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If it needs one how about Utouch.
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I dont think we should use "Touch" in/as the name.
Ubuntu Touch was actually just Ubuntu, but people called it Ubuntu Touch because even though convergence was promised, we never got unity 8 to a good enough level to be default on the desktop, otherwise I believe we would have just called it Ubuntu.We should look at current names of projects
- Android
- iOS
- Windows Phone
- CyanogenOS
- LineageOS
Personally I think we shouldn't have OS or Phone in the name either.
So looking at- Android
- Sailfish
- Plasma
- Tizen
- FireFox
Desktop
- Ubuntu
- Mint
- Debian
What would sound good in this kind of area?
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@Lakota said in Branding UBports: OS name / Project Logo / Project Name:
If it needs one how about Utouch.
+1
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@Bastos said in Branding UBports: OS name / Project Logo / Project Name:
If it needs one how about Utouch.
"Utouch Urself. The most pleasant OS in the World".
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UB-Mobile, U-Mobile, UBports-Mobile, stealing that from somewhere ~
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@Flohack said in Branding UBports: OS name / Project Logo / Project Name:
@CyberAly I am a bit opposed against emphasizing Ubuntu in the name. TBH Canonical let us all down, and now we should give them free advertisment for their name? Nah I dont like this. We are not affiliated with them, and on th elong run I want some distance here....
Ubuntu is not Canonical. The community was build in the Ubuntu community with their values. If that are not the values which should be in this mobile operating system than it is better to change the name. Ubuntu is a philosophy. If it is a good goal for the operating system I think the project can use this name. The distance, when the project change the name of the operating system has nothing to do with a distance to Canonical. It is only a distance to the early adapter from the Ubuntu Community.
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@toddy that's fine and dandy but please read my message above https://forums.ubports.com/post/2292 specially this part:
"Any redistribution of modified versions of Ubuntu must be approved, certified or provided by Canonical if you are going to associate it with the Trademarks. Otherwise you must remove and replace the Trademarks".
In short, we can't use the name Ubuntu unless we want to deal with Canonical certification.
Canonical’s Trademarks (registered in word and logo form) include:
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- Kubuntu
- Edubuntu
- Xubuntu
- Juju
- Landscape
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We are in talks with Canonical about the use of Canonical IP.
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Hi, I think we should not forget Ubuntu developers effort. On the other hand we have now bot logo and UBports branding that just works very well. I like it, I have a big respect with the people that have pick up the UT OS to keep it a live, they have choosen current branding and logo, we should listen to their opinion and feelings in this case and wait until they come to us with some new branding and logo ideas, if necessary.
We should take it easy, and keep working on more important issues. Let the future or Canonical do the first move.
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@UniSuperBox said in Branding UBports: OS name / Project Logo / Project Name:
We are in talks with Canonical about the use of Canonical IP.
That evidently changes everything.
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@MK73 I was looking at my browser home page,and wondering why it could not have ???
UBports Help
UBports Shop
UBports Community
this could be a link to the wiki ,etcOr a link for ,FAQ, or installing
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I think that is a must.
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I updated my two devices yesterday and it all went smooth, no issues in the upgrade at all. So far looks good, with the new browser and Dekko 2 working nice and smooth.
The upgrade did make me rethink about this post and the fact that branding needs to be addressed. For me personally there were two issues that I could see, moving past the fact that we do not know the name or if to keep the robot:
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list itemOn boot up my M10 shows the UBPorts robot with the scrolling dots, however on my E5 it shows Ubuntu Touch on boot up with the scrolling dots. Strange, as I thought that they would have both shown the same thing. This should be consistent.
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list itemAfter porting, I had rebooted my M10 I was unsure if it was actually UBPorts that I had and not actually the previous clean version of Touch. There was nothing that actually told me that I had ports. Nothing like a default UBPorts wallpaper, nothing in the settings or anything else that I could find. I had to reboot to see if I had the robot with the scrolling dots.
I just think that whatever we go with we need to make it a bit clearer for people to know what they are using Ubuntu Touch or UBPorts. A default wallpaper would be a quick and easy way to address this.
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