[Zope] The name ZOPE (was RE: [Zope] Linux.com community ad)

[Phillip J. Eby]

Perhaps Zope' - zoh-pay - with an accent symbol over the e, as in resume',
would do the trick, and play on the cultural cachet of European-sounding
names, at least in the U.S.  :)


At 10:06 AM 10/15/99 -0700, Loren Stafford wrote:
>I think all you need to do is change the pronunciation to "zopey" as in
>"Penelope". I started pronouncing it that way before I heard that others
>didn't. I thought it was the name of some Greek goddess I'd never heard of
>before.
>
>I think it's cool.
>
>-- $.02
>-- Loren
>
>
>> I seem to be the one that rains on a lot of parades but I thought this was
>> the time to bring up something thats been bothering me for
>> awhile. The name
>> ZOPE. In my opinion its not very good. It doesn't convey the   sense of an
>> enterprise object oriented web publishing system. It sounds silly. Zope as
>> in Soap. Zope on a Rope. People look at me strange when I say I've been
>> working with Zope.
>> I think Z Object Publishing Environment is fine but thats not a name its a
>> description. I personally think it needs a name that suggests the power,
>> stability and flexibility that is Zope.
>>
>> Am I alone in this thought?