"OpenWrt One" could be thought over, for future searchability, and/or a more endearing/charming name

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Hello,

I think it's awesome to custom-design a sensible, affordable, and maintenance-friendly router tailored to OpenWRT's strengths. Kudos to all involved. :+1:

The planned router announced here, has a name which might not be very good for search-ability in the future, owing to its genericness. It is furthermore a bland name. Why not some kind of a fun, catchy name?

For example, just like Linux has its very widely known penguin mascot :penguin:, how about some kind of animal? I, for one, think owls are pretty cool :owl:, so I would suggest names like "OpenWRT Uhu" ("Uhu" is a german word for owl, photo here), "OpenWRT owlbot", or some such.

Perhaps a poll for some good alternate candidate names that the signers-off nominate, could be put on a poll right here in this forum? I'm referring to these illustrious "signers-off":

Signed-off-by: Alexander Couzens lynxis@fe80.eu
Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn bkuhn@sfconservancy.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle daniel@makrotopia.org
Signed-off-by: David Bauer mail@david-bauer.net
Signed-off-by: Denver Gingerich denver@sfconservancy.org
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens hauke@hauke-m.de
Signed-off-by: John Crispin john@phrozen.org
Signed-off-by: Jo-Philipp Wich jo@mein.io
Signed-off-by: Paul Spooren mail@aparcar.org
Signed-off-by: Petr Ε tetiar ynezz@true.cz
Signed-off-by: Piotr Dymacz pepe2k@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Liu steven.liu@mediatek.com

Then once the candidate alternate names are voted on in a poll, we'll know by consensus which name carries the most charm and appeal in this community.

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For every user that agrees with you though there will be another that will say keep away from cartoonish names or logos.

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The beauty of a poll, is that assumptions like yours and mine would be put to a test.

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Openwrt in the old days used cocktails names for release. Wonder if it might be a good idea for the 20 years

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The OpenWrt Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster
With the "-42" version containing all the possible options.....

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Was thinking more of a OGin Router

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OpenWrt One-More-Beer

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I personally find that name awesome, however people always shorten long names. Would that be the "garg" for short?

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