[PODLINGNAMESEARCH-82] Establish whether "Apache Brooklyn" is a suitable name

• Type: Suitable Name Search
• Status: Resolved
• Resolution: Fixed
• Podling: Apache Brooklyn
• Proposed Name: Apache Brooklyn

Evidence Of Open Source Adoption

OpenHub shows 26 results:
https://www.openhub.net/p?ref=homepage&query=brooklyn
There are no relevant competing projects.
Top hit: https://www.openhub.net/p/incubator-brooklyn

Github shows 367 repositories, most of them related to (or forks of) Apache Brooklyn:
Non Apache Brooklyn related projects are in non-related areas:
* Brooklyn - Small web tool on top of Rack (https://github.com/luislavena/brooklyn)
* Brooklyn is a simple file based CMS what best fits for one page websites and landing pages.(https://github.com/nmsdvid/brooklyn)
* SVN Dump Parser (https://github.com/Valgard/brooklyn)
* Brooklyn is a machine definition (in a Vagrantfile) designed to fulfill Machete's dependencies. (https://github.com/cf-toolsmiths-dummy/brooklyn)
* Python module to Interact with the Brooklyn Museum Collection API (https://github.com/anarchivist/brooklynmuseumapi)
* Actors framework on top of Hazelcast 3.x (https://github.com/pveentjer/brooklyn-hazelcast-actors)
* Brooklyn Timeline Experiment (https://github.com/jdtoy/brooklyn-timeline)
* Twilio Voice App Control via SMS (https://github.com/mickstevens/twilio-brooklyn)
* ... and many other not related or relevant projects

Sourceforge gives only 1 hit
http://sourceforge.net/directory/os:linux/freshness:recently-updated/?q=brooklyn
* Restful Web Service adapter for the NextBus prediction and transit network reporting service (http://sourceforge.net/projects/nextbusapi/)

Evidence Of Registration

USPTO shows 709 records, mostly related to non technology businesses.
Reviewd them all, those that had disclaimers had a variation of:
"NO CLAIM IS MADE TO THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE "BROOKLYN" APART FROM THE MARK AS SHOWN"

Evidence Of Use On World Wide Web

Wikipedia:
Has only Apache Brooklyn under Computer science:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_(disambiguation)

Google searches for Brooklyn gives a lot of results related to the NYC bridge
Narrowing the searchs give non related or relevant hits such as:
* http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/
* http://www.brooklynsoftware.co.uk/
* ... etc
Top hits when searching for "brooklyn cloud" are related to Apache Brooklyn.

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Hadrian Zbarcea
• Created: 01/Sep/15 14:05
• Updated: 18/Sep/15 13:58
• Resolved: 18/Sep/15 13:58

Description

The Apache Brooklyn project is preparing for graduation.