[Kea-users] What is Kea ?

Chaigneau, Nicolas nicolas.chaigneau at capgemini.com
Thu Oct 23 16:02:04 UTC 2014


Nice story, thanks :)
I had thought of the parrot, but was unsure because Kea is sometimes written in caps.

That's way better than dhcpd ^^


> 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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