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["Feng, Chen" <fchen3@xxxxxxx>]

Should the person who suggested the winning name "Yade" + "OpenDEM" get some 
awards:-)))?

Feng

>===== Original Message From Janek Kozicki <cosurgi@xxxxxxxxx> =====
>Hello,
>
>I have counted all votes. Including votes from people who voted only
>for a single name (I assumed they give 0 for all other names). The
>votes from each person are listed here:
>
>http://beta.arcig.cz/~eudoxos/phd/index.cgi/YaDe/NewNameSuggestions
>
>I double checked so I hope that I made no mistake when counting
>votes from each person. But you can check your votes anyway.
>
>The top names are:
>
>69 | YADE-***                |
>56 | Yade                    | current name. You can vote for that too.
>40 | OpenDEM / FEM / etc ... | the Open source Discrete and Explicit/Element 
Method
>30 | Obsidian                | O(b)pen S(i)oftware for D(i)ynamic ANalysis.
>28 | OpenDEM+                | "Open DEM Plus" - more than just DEM
>27 | Opsidyan                | open software in dynamic analysis
>25 | Nodem                   | Not Only Discrete Element Method
>23 | Sweet                   | Scientific Workbench for Explicit Engineering 
Theories
>23 | Odyssee                 | Open DYnamic Simulation Software for various 
Element
>21 | Eos                     | Extensible Open Simulation
>20 | Pyrite                  |
>20 | Odin                    | Open Dynamic computatIoN platform
>17 | Edy                     | explicit dynamics
>17 | Skarn                   |
>
>Conclusions:
>
>1. We use the old name: YADE
>2. We call each package 'Open DEM', 'Open FEM', etc... so that google
>   will catch the word 'Open'
>
>Previousy I thought about calling each package just DEM and FEM. But
>it looks like adding a prefix "Open" is preferred by many people: it
>is 2nd place in the voting! So let it be :)
>
>I'm sure that if voting for names was done 2 years ago, we would have
>something completely different. But now, this project has some
>history so we stick with the old name.
>
>Yes - I added OpenFEM to the OpenDEM option: I think it is the only
>reasonable thing to do, because YADE handles FEM too.
>
>I'm looking forward for your comments about the results.
>
>--
># Janek Kozicki
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