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["Wang, Shane" <shane.wang@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thierry is correct, there is no word starting with “I”, “U” and “V” in classic transliteration of Chinese words in Mandarin.
If we consider the words in Cantonese, Taiwanese (Hakka), or foreign words, there will be some candidates, as the friends suggested.

For example in the list:
Foreign words – Inner Mongolia, Ili
Cantonese – Ichang street (there really is a city in mainland but named as “Yichang” in Mandarin with the same Chinese characters 宜昌市 near Yangtze river, and it locates at the end of the biggest three-gorge dam), Ip man and Iching (but those are not place names).

Thanks.
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Shane
From: John Hebert [mailto:johnalexhebert@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 11:49 PM
To: John Wong; openstack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Wang, Shane; Thierry Carrez
Subject: Re: [Openstack] I release naming (calling APAC community)

John Wong's idea is a good one. Including the Hong Kong Openstack community in the naming process would be very helpful in attracting developers.

I like Ichang ("EE-chang"). It is short and the name of a place at the summit.

John Hebert

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:59 PM, John Wong <gokoproject@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:gokoproject@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Hi,

Interesting. I came from HK when I was kid. I will give a good thought on this tomorrow.

BUT BUT first impression on the list: drop the idea of "imperial", please. If the reason behind the suggestion has to do with British Empire, I strongly advised you drop that suggestion because that description is highly political. There are people in HK against the whole power shift from Britain to China since 1997. And submit usually draw hundreds, if not, thousands of developers across the world together. This will be a big event.

If we go with street name I know Ichang Street (宜昌街), Inverness Road (延文禮士道) are good candidate. I submitted my edit: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Release_Naming#.22I.22_release_cycle_naming

I haven't crossed out Imperial on the WiKi, but the community should vote on removal though.
Also, why don't we send this to the CS students enrolled in HK's universities? This is a big event - driving potentially thousands developers to HK? That's really the first time I can recall as a HK child.

John

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Wang, Shane <shane.wang@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:shane.wang@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
What about Ili, which is a prefecture name in Xinjiang in China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ili_Kazakh_Autonomous_Prefecture

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Shane

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> Subject: [Openstack] I release naming (calling APAC community)
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> Hi everyone,
>
> As you may know, we name our release cycles after cities or counties in
> the state/country where the corresponding design summit is held.
>
> That creates an interesting problem for the "I" release, since there is
> no word starting with "i" in classic transliteration of Chinese words...
> so not so many candidates. We'll have to get a bit creative and be
> willing to bend the rules a little.
>
> Feel free to suggest names on this thread, or on the wiki page at:
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Release_Naming
>
> I am especially interested by the input of our APAC community in general
> and our Chinese members in particular, which are probably the best to
> let us know which transliteration crime could be acceptable or which
> name they would particularly like.
>
> Cheers,
>
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> Thierry Carrez (ttx)
> Release Manager, OpenStack
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