[PODLINGNAMESEARCH-93] Establish whether "Apache Kudu" is a suitable name

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

Evidence Of Open Source Adoption

- The Kudu podling has been using this name for several months prior to incubation.
- The .NET foundation has a project called Kudu which is "the engine behind git/hg deployments, WebJobs, and various other features in Azure Web Sites.". We have been in touch with this foundation's legal team and received approval to share the name Kudu in September, 2015.
- Several smaller software projects on github (see detailed notes below) which appear to be inactive or projects of single developers rather than communities. None are related to data storage, databases, or the Apache Hadoop ecosystem.

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*Detailed Notes*
Apache Directory: just the existing podling

Github: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=kudu&type=Repositories&ref=searchresults

I went through the first 10 pages of results (Github seems to rank by repository popularity, so this should cover any active communities)

- Project Kudu ("the engine behind git/hg deployments, WebJobs, and various other features in Azure Web Sites.")
-- has subprojects called "Kudu Sync", "Kudu Script", etc.
-- a few other related projects on github like WCOMAB/Cake.Kudu, WCOMAB/KuduPostDeploymentSlackHook, etc.
-- similarly a few personal projects that appear to be experimenting with this kudu (eg TomerAvni/kudu)

- various repositories related to the Kudu podling (personal forks of Kudu, Spark on Kudu, Impala-Kudu, kudu-examples, docker-kudu, drill-storage-kudu)


- bengler/kudu ("ranks content in collections")
-- a ruby-on-rails app for ranking lists of items based on user votes
-- relatively inactive (7 commits in the last 1.5 years, by one contributor)
-- relatively small community (6 github stars, 13 watchers, 1 fork)

- mammaldev/kudu ("an opinionated boilerplate for express web apps")
-- 1 contributor, 2 watchers, 5 stars, 0 forks
-- framework for node.js web service development


Ubuntu packages: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=kudu&searchon=names&suite=wily&section=all
- no results


Souceforge: https://sourceforge.net/directory/os:linux/?q=kudu
- Kudu Animator: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kudu/?source=directory
-- "is a Gtk+ and OpenGL powered animation package, ...". category: 3D Modeling
-- 4 weekly downloads
-- last update 2013-03-22

- Project Codename "Kudu": https://sourceforge.net/projects/stos/?source=directory
-- last update 2013-04-12, last commit 2007-06-04
-- 0 downloads this week
-- "Kudu is a free, open source operating system. It is being written in ASM/C++, using NASM and g++ as compilers."
-- appears dead (descriptoin says "we should have v0.1 out by the end of January 2008"and there are no releases.


Openhub:
- https://www.openhub.net/p/stos
-- Page title and description references the Kudu operating system project above. However the stats and github link point to the .NET foundation project already mentioned above.

- https://www.openhub.net/p/kudu
-- "Kudu Animator" project listed above on sourceforge.

- Project Codename "Kudu": https://sourceforge.net/projects/stos/?source=directory
-- last update 2013-04-12, last commit 2007-06-04
-- 0 downloads this week
-- "Kudu is a free, open source operating system. It is being written in ASM/C++, using NASM and g++ as compilers."
-- appears dead (descriptoin says "we should have v0.1 out by the end of January 2008"and there are no releases.

- Several projects related to the .NET Kudu (KuduCalf, KuduVfs, KuduExec, KuduScript, KuduSync, MySimpleProjectForKudu)

- https://www.openhub.net/p/cudu
-- description in Spanish: web application developed by the goverment of Valencia for managing data related to youth groups such as Scouts
-- link to project page is dead

Evidence Of Registration

USPTO:
- TESS search '(kudu)[FM] and (software)[GS] and (live)[LD]' returns no results
Trademarkia: http://www.trademarkia.com/trademarks-search.aspx?tn=kudu
- no results contain the term 'software'

Evidence Of Use On World Wide Web

Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=kudu&oq=kudu
- first page contains:
-- 5 results pertaining to the podling
-- 4 results pertaining to the animal itself
-- 1 result for the .NET foundation project

Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=kudu&go=Submit&qs=n&form=QBLH&pq=kudu&sc=8-4&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=1FA44808BF924DE2879756508EF48600
- first page contains:
-- 6 pertaining to the animal (or the dictionary definition of the word)
-- 1 pertaining to the .NET project
-- 1 pertaining to Kudu Coffee & Craft Beer, a cafe in Charleston, SC.

Google for "Kudu software": https://www.google.com/search?q=kudu+software&oq=kudu+software
- top 5 are about the podling
- one reference to 'Kuta software', educational software for teachers
- 2 references to "Made to Measure" software - company in south africa offers a "software package for managing the many aspects of your medical practice's accounts". One module is called Kudu.
- one reference to .NET project
- FlightScope Kudu - golf ball tracking hardware
- Kodu (note spelling): "lets kids create games on the PC and XBox..."

Google for "Kudu storage": (looked at first 4 pages)
- first 26 results related to the podling
- result #27 related to the .NET project
- result #40 from kuduresources.com (offers "Procurement Expertise for the Gas and Oil Industry"), page is about bulk storage tanks

Google for "Kudu database":
- first page: 7/10 results about the podling
- 3 results related to the mammaldev/kudu node.js framework being able to load data from databases
- on third page a few results related to Birnin Kudu, a town in Nigeria, as well as Kyzyls Kudu, a type of Afghan Hound.

Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudu_(disambiguation)
- KUDU radio station in Alaska
- Kudu Records, a jazz record label
- Kudu, a chain of fast food restaurants in Saudi Arabia
- Kudu, a small village in Russia

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 27/Feb/16 21:22
• Updated: 02/Jun/16 14:10
• Resolved: 02/Jun/16 12:12