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[Thorsten Zachmann]

On Sunday, November 20, 2011 21:42:59 C. Boemann wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Here are the results of the poll

Can you please post the link to the result of the poll please.

> It also reveals the names (for those that weren't at the sprint). And yes
> some were made as a joke, but in all fairness all proposed names were
> brought to the vote.
> 
> 
> 1. Abacus  (Condorcet winner: wins contests with all other choices)

Even if it won the competition it is a bad choice as there is already a 
spreadsheet application out there with this name. See
http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/deskutils/abacus.html

Also ubuntu ships with xabacus. Therefore I have a strong feeling we should 
not use a name already used by a different open source project.

> 2. Spreads  loses to Abacus by 6–3
> 3. Tables  loses to Abacus by 8–2, loses to Spreads by 6–3
> 4. Grids  loses to Abacus by 6–2, loses to Tables by 6–4
> 5. Kiire (estonian for quick)  loses to Abacus by 7–1, loses to Grids by
> 5–3 6. Blocks  loses to Abacus by 8–0, loses to Kiire (estonian for quick)
> by 4–3 7. Boxes  loses to Abacus by 8–0, loses to Blocks by 4–1
> 8. Formula / formulas  loses to Abacus by 7–1, loses to Boxes by 3–2
> 9. Flats  loses to Abacus by 8–0, loses to Formula / formulas by 4–1
> 10. Numbers n shit  loses to Abacus by 8–0, loses to Flats by 4–2
> 
> 
> 
> Now, for those voting it's quite clear that Abacus has a healthy margin.
> 
> I thus propose that we make the change.

Thorsten