ProjectNameFilter: Help me find a better name for my open source project

July 25, 2006 12:03 PM

I need to come up with a more descriptive name for an open source project.

I have written a program to help create interactive tutorials to teach programming with Python. As far as I know, it's a first of its kind: it takes a normal-looking W3C compliant html page from anywhere and displays it inside a browser (firefox) window with "interactive Python objects", so that you can try out the examples right inside your browser (provided you have Python installed on your computer).


Following a common practice in many Python-related projects, I have given it a name (Crunchy Frog) related to the works of the British comedy troup, Monty Python.

However, I have found out that another project already exists with an almost identical name (CrunchyFrog ), with no space in between "Crunchy" and "Frog". Furthermore, it has been suggested to me that the name should be more descriptive. Perhaps something along the line of:

"Crunchy Frog: the Interactive Tutorial 'Creator' or 'Maker' "
"Crunchy the Interactive Tutorial Creator" (which could be shortened to "Crunchy Creator".)

Note that both the sourceforge site where it is created and an svn repository that hosts the code start with "crunchy" (crunchy.sourceforge.net and crunchy.python-hosting.com), so I would rather keep that word in its name.

Suggestions would be gladly accepted.

posted by aroberge to computers & internet (19 comments total)

"Crunchy Python"

What's Crunchy Python? Why a program to help create interactive tutorials to teach programming with Python. It works by allowing you to take a normal-looking W3C compliant html page from anywhere and displays it inside a browser (firefox) window with "interactive Python objects", so that you can try out the examples right inside your browser (provided you have Python installed on your computer).

Plus, you get to have Python in the name so that your software is more likely to come up when someone searches for "python tutorial," "learning python," etc. .
posted by oddman at 12:11 PM on July 25, 2006

Crunch Pyfox?
posted by aaronwinborn at 12:12 PM on July 25, 2006

Sorry, did I mention that "Crunchy Python" is simple, on topic and catchy? All things that you want in a name.
posted by oddman at 12:12 PM on July 25, 2006

Snake Crunch.
Crunch Crunch.
Wide Open Crunch.
Punch, the Python Crunch Fantabulator.
posted by The Jesse Helms at 12:13 PM on July 25, 2006

Yeah, Crunchy Python is better.
posted by aaronwinborn at 12:13 PM on July 25, 2006

perhaps you could outrank the already-trademarked Cap'n Crunch with Maj'r Crunch
posted by mcstayinskool at 12:18 PM on July 25, 2006

Frunch
posted by fire&wings at 12:20 PM on July 25, 2006

When I heard the words 'crunchy' and 'python' together, it made me think of that famous snake-eater: the mongoose.

This is not a direct suggestion, but hopefully something to get ideas flowing.
posted by Kickstart70 at 12:27 PM on July 25, 2006

Larksvomit.
posted by ulotrichous at 12:30 PM on July 25, 2006

Oops, missed the crunchy part. Crunchy Python is really pretty good.
posted by ulotrichous at 12:32 PM on July 25, 2006

Cute and clever are fun, descriptive is better.
posted by orthogonality at 12:39 PM on July 25, 2006

How 'bout we mix a couple of suggestions and get Pyth'n Crunch?
posted by Wolfdog at 12:40 PM on July 25, 2006

Python Suprise: You'll be suprised at how easy it is to turn an ordinary normal-looking W3C compliant document into an interactive tutorial with live python objects that spring out through both cheeks when you bit down on them.
posted by Good Brain at 1:23 PM on July 25, 2006

I'm voting for "Python Food."
posted by Clay201 at 1:33 PM on July 25, 2006

Or maybe "Python Snack."
posted by Clay201 at 1:34 PM on July 25, 2006

Although I am enjoying the Crunchy Python (cool name) goodness, the first word that actualy came to mind was

"Pythorial" Python+Tutorial

Perhaps you can use this term somewhere... Good Luck on your project.
posted by Leenie at 1:42 PM on July 25, 2006

"Hatching Python"
or
"BabyPython"
or
"BabyPy"

err...just make sure that last one is written and not spoken, to avoid misunderstanding.
posted by lunchbox at 2:10 PM on July 25, 2006

While I agree the descriptve is good, I'm not sure that a non-descriptive name is a deal breaker. Neither Firefox, Google, Napster, Limewire, Azureus etc., have descriptive names, but that hasn't stopped them from being successful.

Of course, a descriptive and clever name would be best. (Thus the inclusion of "Python" in my suggestion.) Originally I thought that an acronym name like GIMP or GNU would be good, but fitting "crunchy" into an acronym about a python tutorial proved to be pretty darn hard.
posted by oddman at 2:24 PM on July 25, 2006

"Snakes on a Brain"?
posted by todbot at 3:54 PM on July 25, 2006