> there is a traction behind Pharo and Moose does not seem to benefit from it

To a degree this is marketing that might be changed without changing the name of Moose.  You want to leverage Pharo by marketing Moose as an "extension" of Pharo ?  Why has the Moose home page no mention of Pharo?   If that is your strategy then "Moose is an extension of Pharo" should be in big print on the home page.

Also if "Modelling" is important apart from helping get "Pharo" into the name, you might consider "MooseModelling is a tools extension to Pharo".  Its got nice catchy alliteration.  That might make a better entry to Pharo Catalog than just "Moose". 

That said, I have no particular investment in the "name" Moose.  Maybe the name eventually changes to include Pharo, but there are smaller steps that are probably required anyway, which probably should be done first. 

However GToolkit could do with a name make-over for the Configuration Browser.  What does it do? 

cheers -ben

Tudor Girba wrote:
I agree that people are not exposed enough to what happens in Moose. At the moment, the name is GToolkit. Once it will become available in the Configuration Browser it will be more visible.

But, I hope that in a reasonable time frame, we can get it in Pharo itself. But, for that to happen, I need you lobby :).

Doru


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com> wrote:
I just see it that way: there is a traction behind Pharo and Moose does not seem to benefit from it. People who enter the Pharo community by using Pharo directly rarely look at Moose, which is understandable I think. You can see this by the effort being carried on the inspector and the explorer.

Having a name such as ‘Pharo4Modelling’ or ‘PharoOnModels' would implicitly conveys a more powerful Pharo. Where the word ‘Moose’ tells this is something different.

Anyway, this is just a meta-thought.

Alexandre


On Mar 14, 2014, at 6:05 AM, Diego Lont <diego.lont@delware.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I agree with Ben. Moose is not a bad name. But on the website there can be more focus on the other features of Moose: that it is also applicable outside the software analysis.
>
> Also I do like that it does not contain the name Pharo. It is primarily intended as a tool, that needs some programming to work for your needs. That most of us use this as our development platform, as we like to analyse our own software is secondary.
>
> Cheers,
> Diego
>
> On 13 Mar 2014, at 16:32, Ben Coman <btc@openInWorld.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree with what Alex said.  I came to Moose originally just because I knew it had Roassal, Glamour & Magritte working together in the same image.   I later discovered FAMIX stuff kind-of related to what I was doing, but I was unable to work out how to use it for my needs and had plenty else to focus on for my dissertation.  I think you do not _need_ to change the name.  If you want to reposition your marketing of Moose to push that Moose now does more than before, you just need to update the home page, where currently "humane assessment" takes prime spot.    Humane Assessment has its own very nice web site so perhaps a smaller presence linking to that would be acceptable.
>>
>> To reposition Moose,  you could make things more explicit by splitting "Moose is a platform for software and data analysis" into...
>> * Moose is for modeling
>> * Moose is for data visualization
>> * Moose is for software re-engineering
>>
>> or some other combination of three-things taking up the predominant space on the web page.
>>
>> However if you wanted to align more with Pharo, then PharoModelling seems reasonable.
>>
>> cheers -ben
>>
>>
>> Tudor Girba wrote:
>>> Hi Alex,
>>>
>>> I think by Moose you mean FAMIX :). But, Moose is no longer FAMIX. FAMIX is there only for convenience for some use cases.
>>>
>>> Moose is now the engines. This is what makes the platform with which we reinvent programming. I said a year ago that Moose will become the IDE. And we are almost there. We still need a couple of extra tools like a Coder, but we can already affect development significantly with the debugger, inspector and playground.
>>>
>>> If you want, Moose is the engine with which humane assessment becomes a reality :).
>>>
>>> Actually, if you just want an image with just the engines, you can get it in the gtoolkit image:
>>> https://ci.inria.fr/moose/job/gtoolkit/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/gtoolkit.zip
>>>
>>> Doru
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Alexandre Bergel <alexandre.bergel@me.com> wrote:
>>> > remember that Moose is a "data Analysis platform" it is not only for software, so yes somebody not working with software can use it.
>>>
>>> I know, but actually, I am finding myself using the moose image essentially for GTInspector and Playground. Much more than moose itself. The Moose image is offering something else in addition to Moose, and I think we should embrace this better.
>>>
>>> Alexandre
>>>
>>> >
>>> > I have no particular objection to change the name except that changing name means you restart from scratch and have to re-explain to people what it is ...
>>> >
>>> > nicolas
>>> >
>>> > On 13/03/2014 13:46, Alexandre Bergel wrote:
>>> >> Hi!
>>> >>
>>> >> The Moose image offers much more than offering moose. For example, I have a postdoc working on Astronomy images and she is using the moose image not because of moose, but because of what is shipped with it.
>>> >>
>>> >> Does something who is not interested in analyzing software may find the moose image useful? The answer is absolutely yes.
>>> >>
>>> >> What about changing the name of the Moose image into something closer to what it really offer?
>>> >> Maybe Pharo4Modelling ? PharoModellingEdition?
>>> >>
>>> >> I think this discussion is important.
>>> >>
>>> >> Cheers,
>>> >> Alexandre
>>
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