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Re: How to package human, mouse and viral genomes?



On Thu, 03 Sep 2020, Steffen Möller wrote:

> The name "datalad" (https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/lad) I definitely like.

;-)  The history goes:  it was called datagit, but naive Yarik decided
to asks FSF for a permission... so we had to come up with a new name, I
flew into Germany, we drank (khe khe -- discussed not yet taken names)
for the entire weekend. One of the requirements was: the mascot for the
project must be capable of wearing the orange fury coat (and that name
should be short and still available across social media etc).  The
best we came up with was FTF (Faster than Floppy, forget about mascot),
and I flew back... when I landed, Michael sent me "he got it" and it was
"DataLad" which made total sense if you think about what "git" is ;)

Some kick back though we were told about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lad_culture

> I suggest to collect more input/use cases over the weekend and then see
> how this goes. My immediate thought is that we describe our alternatives
> and try them all on a machine that we share.

We have a public matrix board, welcome to join
https://app.element.io/#/room/#datalad:matrix.org
if you have quick questions to address

-- 
Yaroslav O. Halchenko
Center for Open Neuroscience     http://centerforopenneuroscience.org
Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755
WWW:   http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik        

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