On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 07:58:59PM -0400, Paul Belanger wrote:

Greetings all,

It is time again to cast your vote for the naming of the S Release. This time is little different as we've decided to use a public polling option over per user private URLs for voting. This means, everybody should proceed to use the following URL to cast their vote:

https://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/vote.pl?id=E_40b95cb2be3fcdf1&akey=8cfdc1f5df5fe4d3

Because this is a public poll, results will currently be only viewable by myself until the poll closes. Once closed, I'll post the URL making the results viewable to everybody. This was done to avoid everybody seeing the results while the public poll is running.

The poll will officially end on 2018-03-21 23:59:59[1], and results will be posted shortly after.

[1] http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/release-na... ---

According to the Release Naming Process, this poll is to determine the community preferences for the name of the R release of OpenStack. It is possible that the top choice is not viable for legal reasons, so the second or later community preference could wind up being the name.

Release Name Criteria

Each release name must start with the letter of the ISO basic Latin alphabet following the initial letter of the previous release, starting with the initial release of "Austin". After "Z", the next name should start with "A" again.

The name must be composed only of the 26 characters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet. Names which can be transliterated into this character set are also acceptable.

The name must refer to the physical or human geography of the region encompassing the location of the OpenStack design summit for the corresponding release. The exact boundaries of the geographic region under consideration must be declared before the opening of nominations, as part of the initiation of the selection process.

The name must be a single word with a maximum of 10 characters. Words that describe the feature should not be included, so "Foo City" or "Foo Peak" would both be eligible as "Foo".

Names which do not meet these criteria but otherwise sound really cool should be added to a separate section of the wiki page and the TC may make an exception for one or more of them to be considered in the Condorcet poll. The naming official is responsible for presenting the list of exceptional names for consideration to the TC before the poll opens.

Exact Geographic Region

The Geographic Region from where names for the S release will come is Berlin

Proposed Names

Spree (a river that flows through the Saxony, Brandenburg and Berlin states of Germany)

SBahn (The Berlin S-Bahn is a rapid transit system in and around Berlin)

Spandau (One of the twelve boroughs of Berlin)

Stein (Steinstraße or "Stein Street" in Berlin, can also be conveniently abbreviated as 🍺)

Steglitz (a locality in the South Western part of the city)

Springer (Berlin is headquarters of Axel Springer publishing house)

Staaken (a locality within the Spandau borough)

Schoenholz (A zone in the Niederschönhausen district of Berlin)

Shellhaus (A famous office building)

Suedkreuz ("southern cross" - a railway station in Tempelhof-Schöneberg)

Schiller (A park in the Mitte borough)

Saatwinkel (The name of a super tiny beach, and its surrounding neighborhood) (The adjective form, Saatwinkler is also a really cool bridge but that form is too long)

Sonne (Sonnenallee is the name of a large street in Berlin crossing the former wall, also translates as "sun")

Savigny (Common place in City-West)

Soorstreet (Street in Berlin restrict Charlottenburg)

Solar (Skybar in Berlin)

See (Seestraße or "See Street" in Berlin)

A friendly reminder, the naming poll will be closing later today (2018-03-21 23:59:59 UTC). If you haven't done so, please take a moment to vote. Thanks, Paul