Could we name the Red Hat Customer Portal something easy/catchy/etc...
Most enterprise vendors seem to have a fairly short, easy to utter our and very identifiable name for their forum or knowledgebase. Like PowerBlah, or BigFoo, BlahBar...
I think it would be beneficial if the RHCP had a simple name. Fat Brain comes to mind, but has nothing representing Red Hat. Perhaps David and Henry could open it up for suggestions, then have a poll. Perhaps the winner gets a free developer license for a year? ;-)
Then.... a mascot... and logo... and licensing rights for superbowl commercials... (World Cup for the non-US folks out there!)
and.. if you are wondering why I would like to go this route, I find myself constantly stumbling amid my fervor to explain something as I search for words to explain where I had submitted a request from the community, or retrieved a useful response. As opposed to simply saying - "ya, there was a post on bigadmin that was really helpful".
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Red Hat
Guru
4309 points
>> As opposed to simply saying - "ya, there was a post on bigadmin that was really helpful".
"BigAdmin" has a ring to it, James! And although I'm not sure that our brand team would go for that one in particular, I like where you're going here. Maybe others can chime in with some suggestions.
Super Bowl ads- with the recent ads still in my mind, we could have some fun there :)
Red Hat
Active Contributor
156 points
"Brain Dump" comes to mind, but not sure that Marketing would go for it :-)
Although, we could put a red hat on a brain for a logo...
Red Hat
Guru
3152 points
Indeed. "Red Hat Customer Portal" and "Red Hat Customer Private Communities" really don't roll off the tongue.
Alternate suggestions:
- The Red Zone
- Hatty
- ShadowZone
- The Red Hat Community (since we're so big on that term)
- Dynamic Synergized Online Electronic Collaboration Hub
- Fred
- OpenPortal
- Portal of Love
- RHGateway
- RH Interwebs
- Tha Interwebs
Guru
6863 points
I don't know how I did not see your reply sooner (sorry!). Anyhow.. BigAdmin is taken - but your response exemplified my point: you heard a buzzphrase and it stuck ;-) I look forward to a time when someone is discussing an issue and a peer exclaims "did you post to... <blah>?" and the Red Hat Customer Portal is the definitive go to, first thing to roll off your tongue response to a question.
Red Hat
25369 points
- Portal of Love
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I don't know about that one.
But I'd definitely love to have a catchier title for the community component of the Customer Portal, and all suggestions are welcome!
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