[Kea-users] What is Kea ?

Marcin Siodelski marcin at isc.org
Thu Oct 23 15:57:30 UTC 2014


Maybe you should write a blog about parrots in your projects? ;-)

Marcin


On 10/23/14 17:47, Tomek Mrugalski wrote:
> On 23.10.2014 17:05, Chaigneau, Nicolas wrote:
>> I mean, where does the name come from, what does it stand for ?
> It's a nickname I gave this project. Kea is a high mountain parrot that
> lives in New Zealand.
>
> Personally, I love travelling and I'm fond of nature. I think that
> naming software after animals is much better than coming up with
> meaningless acronyms. My other project, Dibbler, took its name from a
> small marsupial that lives in Australia. Yet another one of my projects
> was called Numbat, after small anteater living in Australia. Yes, I do
> like Australia and New Zealand a lot :)
>
> Initially, Kea was an internal name we used for the project, because
> speaking out loud bind10 dhcp is mouthful. I did a presentation once and
> repeating that name 10 times in front of full audience was awkward.
>
> Once BIND10 was cancelled, we needed a new name and Kea was an obvious
> choice.
>
> Actually, the name was not chosen randomly. I was looking for something
> that was short, easy to type, disambiguous, not similar to any existing
> software, phonetically easy to pronounce, easy to remember, and not
> copyrightable.
>
> You may have noticed that bind10 logo was a parrot called Bundy. So I
> was looking up for a name or mascot that would be a good fit. Funny
> fact: the other proposed name for this project was galah, a small rose
> parrot from Australia. The name lost because Stephen discovered that in
> australian slang 'galah' is a common term for an idiot that speaks too
> much :) So we settled with kea.
>
> Tomek
> p.s.
>
> That's what Kea looks like: http://goo.gl/26ETve. One day we'll think
> about a logo for this project. I'm sure there will be a parrot in it.
>
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