Slogan
Whilst GNUstep has no official slogan so far, the potential benefit of having one was discussed and many drafts were proposed on the mailing lists recently (around 2nd November week 2007). This is the attempt of summing them up together with some pros and cons which were noted.
The con/pro comments are given in headwords. It must be kept in mind that the pros and cons are weighted rather differently by the individual discussion participants. Proposals without comment were more or less ignored so far.
Please fill in more. This is just a beginning.
General considerations
Headwordwise:
- prescriptiveness: (i.e. mention: code, development, API, OpenStep ...)
- Some say -- with regard to the low publicity -- a slogan should give a short description of what GNUstep is
- Others say, it should leave space for imagination.
- mentioning Cocoa/NeXT/Apple/Mac:
- Some say Cocoa should be mentioned to give a better idea of what GNUstep is like, and/or to use Apple's publicity
- Others say that could lead to legal problems with Apple, exspecially when claiming superiority. Competing boldly with Apple could also hurt credibility.
- mentioning advantages (i.e. productivity, portability ...)
- memorability
- not to many words
- something catchy would be great
Proposal list (incomplete!)
- GNUstep -- a step forward from the masses
- GNUstep -- boosting your developement productvity
- GNUstep -- boost your open source GUI developement productvity
- pro positive message, strong benefit description, focus (GUI development)
- con too long
- GNUstep -- Cocoa, just more professional
- GNUstep -- Cocoa, just portable
- GNUstep -- Cocoa opened / GNUstep -- free Cocoa / GNUstep -- free as in Cocoa
- easy to remember, but possibly trouble with Apple
- GNUstep -- Cocoa revisidet
- GNUstep -- code differently
- con differently does not necessarily mean better
- GNUstep -- code intelligently / GNUstep -- code smartly
- GNUstep -- code less, deploy everywhere
- pro gives an idea of what GNUstep is
- pro sums the most important advantages
- GNUstep -- Differently Thunk.
- con differently does not necessarily mean better
- con not descriptive
- GNUStep -- integrate your thoughts
- GNUstep -- Mac free
- GNUstep -- making your users smile
- pro positive message
- con not descriptive in any way
- one of the most considered (most popular?) ideas
- GNUstep -- NeXT for the rest of us
- GNUstep -- Not your father's Cocoa!
- con risk of problems with Apple (?)
- describes roughly what GNUstep is, but does not point out a clear benefit
- GNUStep -- object oriented portability
- con does not describe GNUstep's aim but the mechanics behind. (?)
- GNUstep -- professional. productive. anywhere.
- GNUstep -- the greatest API you've never heard of
- pro comic
- GNUstep -- the real NeXT heir
- GNUstep -- strong shoulders! / GNUstep -- gentle giant with strong shoulders! / GNUstep -- gentle giant with strong shoulders to make your app stand tall
- con to long
- GNUstep -- The Ultimate Development Environment
- describes roughly what GNUstep is, but does not point out a clear benefit
- GNUstep -- want help fixing it?
- con gives the impression that it is totally broken
- GNUstep -- we ain't WindowMaker, Jack!
- con possibly offensive
- con not descriptive
- Put your best to the test. GNUStep does the rest.
- GNUstep -- make development fun again
- pro positive message
- pro descriptive
- pro catchy