I like FROG(S) and from what I read so far it matches most interests/needs in this threads.
While Fairdroid is catchy, I find this a bit problematic since there is nothing particular fair about it (many critic possible, like not google free, not open OS and so on). On the other side the “fair” in Fairphone stands very explicitely and concrete for values. So using it for the OS, which represents none of this values in particular, would in my opinion kinda “wash out” the expresison.
I like “grapheme”. All those proposals with something “Fair” or “Fairphone” show lack of fantasy.My 0.02$: Nomad: “No Mobile Application Distribution”. Though the “no” in the name is a bit negative.
How about versioning them also alphabetically, but either name the versions after Dutch places (Dutch company after all), or after the places where the FairPhone’s coming from (production site, mines…).
I realy like FROG and Fairdroid
Fairdroid look like the app repository fdroid and it is open source but as it was already say, there is nothing fair in the fairphone open source os. It’s cool because it is without google service and open source BUT there is the “fair” from fairphone so it’s nice to hear that we running fairdroid on a fairphone.
FROG : Fairphone Realease Omitting Google is very nice because it say that there is any google services and it’s a funny name but this name doesn’t say that it’s an open source OS.
I guess Fair OS is the best one. It sounds also reliable. I would also start with 0.0.1 (suzhou) so it shows it’s on growing. Suzhou would be good to show respect to the chinese workers.
The things that come to my mind when I think of Fairphone are sustainable electronics, water, smiling people, sun, and Amsterdam.
I had the chance to come to Amsterdam, and people were always smiling, even when these were total strangers.
Another thing that defines the identity of Fairphone is that it’s a small company that wouldn’t betray its ideals, its customers or its partners, and that is very close of its customers.
Frogs are related to France, and this name should reflect the transparency of Fairphone (the aim of this is to provide an open-source OS without the closed-source apps of Google).
All of this makes me thing of the Rijks museum, so I’d suggest you this name : it gravitates around a huge, transparent hall with a lot of space and were people rest after having been in the museum all the day.
Will there be copyrights problem ?
Sustainable, huge, dynamic, resting, and transparent : this is what Fairphone makes me think of. Rijks OS, with a wallpapers set that shows this hall ?
I would not use Rijks as a name for the OS.
But why not as a version of Fair OS?
Fair OS 0.0.1-0.9.9 Suzhou
Fair OS 0.1.x Amsterdam
Fair OS 0.2.x Rijks
etc
After a long discussion in which all the ideas here on the forum were discussed we decided to go with
Fairphone Open OS
and we hope you like it!
We’d like to thank everyone for contributing their ideas in the forum and elsewhere. Finally we decided that Fairphone Open OS would be the best name for several reasons:
It is simple and elegant.
It aspires not more then it is
We didn’t want to use a name that mainly focus on what it is not (all names referring to Google)
FairOS and Fairdroid are great, but it makes other OS’s seem unfair.
As for the extra of using ‘Amsterdam’ or ‘Rijks’ as release names; we currently will use [year.month] as a release scheme.
An extra name could be confusing, and as the Fairphone Open OS is in the end based on Android, we are tempted to stick with Lollipop/5 or Marshmallow/6 to indicate which version of Fairphone Open someone is using.
Once again thanks to all who contributed to this discussion that has helped us sharpen our ideas and guide or thoughts.
Fairphone Open Operating System, aka “FOOS”. For an average non-native speaker the “F” and “V” are hard to distinguish. To prevent confusion with the dutch word “voos” (rotten) I propose a minor modification to the name: “FOOS-with-an-F”