PyMOR - New Name Needed?

[pgierz]

Hi there,

I'd like to invite the community to join in our discussion for a potential new name. The following is originally from an email-chain of the internal development team.

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I look forward to hearing your opinions!
Cheers,
Paul

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Hi together,

Typing pymor in google search engine shows you many results of another software pyMOR for model order reductions and the corresponding literature. Besides that the logo is very similar to ours, also in blue with capital letters and a color gradient from light to dark. And they have already a special domain pymor.org.

Therefor I would like to initiate a brainstorming about a new name, in order to avoid confusion for our potential users. Although the name/brand of PyMOR is already used in the discussion with other institutions and in the RSD, I think it is not to late to change or modify the name before we are planning a broader community involvement.

What about a small modification to “esm_pymor” clarifying that our PyMOR is a tool of the ESM community? As logo I would suggest to change the font for more optical distance to the other logo and to add a small globe with a sparse mesh above the letters. Other idea is to include the globe as the letter “O” into the name.

Any other ideas?

Best,
Bernadette

[mandresm]

In pip the tool is called py-cmor. We could maybe use that (or variations: PyCMOR) as it is accurate and still short name. That is not incompatible with the use of pymor for the cli. That would mean that the only things we would need to change are the github repo name, zenodo and the documentation but not the source code. What do you think?

[BFrit]

good idea. In this way the CMOR community recognizes the tool having in principal the same functionality as CMOR. And only little changes needed.

[siligam]

I also like PyCMOR. If all agree, let's for it then.

[mandresm]

Should we rename also the cli to pycmor to make it all consistent? What about the package in pip? Should we rename it to pycmor insteat of py-cmor

[pgierz]

👍🏻

It also looks like that name is still available: https://pypi.org/search/?q=pycmor

[mandresm]

Okay, so let's go for pycmor then, in pip, in Zenodo, in GitHub and in the cli.

[pgierz]

Yet another suggestion by @mandresm: PypeCMOR

[siligam]

okay, finally we settle on using pycmor. the pip install uses pycmor and also the cli as well.