Current Name Candidates

At this point we have 3 leading name candidates.  We still need to do trademark searching on all of these, so no decision is final.

Honeycomb

+ Social, collective behavior of bees

+ Busy as a bee

+ Who doesn't like honey

+ Suggests design elements of interlocking hexagons which could convey notions of extensibility and openness.  Reflects the Sage logo while still allowing evolution away from it. 

+/- Google using Honeycomb as code name for Android 3.0.  Probably won't be public enough to matter but might have to watch it.

- Somewhat static

Symphony

+ Music made by people working together

+ Music theme connects with Bioconductor community and analysis tools

+ Nice alliteration with "Sage Symphony"

+ Music conveys forward progress

- Classical music might be a little stuffy / elitist for the under 35 target market.

Spark

+ Spark of an idea

+ Spark jumping between two nodes in network / two people

+ Nice alliteration with "Sage Symphony", very short simple 1-syllable name

+ Conveys something getting started (will that be good in 5 years?)

- Openness and community aspects more of a stretch