{"id":226,"date":"2011-12-08T21:26:31","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T02:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=226"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:52:30","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:52:30","slug":"project-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2011\/12\/08\/project-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Name"},"content":{"rendered":"

OSTD, the Open Source Translation Database – that’s the best I could come up with. The name and the acronym has to be unique enough that I can get to the top of search engine results relatively easily. But there’s so much more to the name.<\/p>\n

At first I wanted to get the website a proper domain name, but then I counted how much it would cost and that discouraged me. Between the registration, the dynamic DNS, and the SSL keys I would have to spend over 100 dollars a year on it, which I’m not willing to shell out.<\/p>\n

The name has to be memorable and guessable. What would people search for if they wanted a service like mine? If they found it once, would they remember what it was called?<\/p>\n

It can’t sound geeky. I have a personal problem with 1337<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It shouldn’t sound too stupid either.<\/p>\n

There shouldn’t be conflicts with things like sexually transmitted diseases. Frankly I have no idea why ostd.org exists, my best guess is that std.org was not available. But ostd is different enough from std, so I let that fly for now.<\/p>\n

But hey – if you have a better name idea – please share, I’m quite open to changing it at this early stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OSTD, the Open Source Translation Database – that’s the best I could come up with. The name and the acronym has to be unique enough that I can get to the top of search engine results relatively easily. But there’s so much more to the name. At first I wanted to get the website a … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-226","6":"format-standard","7":"category-ostd","8":"category-safeforseneca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}