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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:27:41 -0400
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Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] Oozie for the Apache Incubator
From: Rob Weir <rob@robweir.com>
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And I was thinking of the Ray Ozzie, the former Microsoft CTO.
Elephant handler is perhaps apt.

-Riob


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Marvin Humphrey <marvin@rectangular.com> w=
rote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:22:39AM +0100, Ross Gardler wrote:
>> You might want to reconsider the name.
>>
>> In English (British English at least) "ooze" is an unpleasant thing
>> often related to a body wound or a stagnant river. The formal
>> definition is not so bad [1], but in common (UK) usage it's
>> unpleasant.
>
> And I thought at first that it was a reference to the Uzi, a submachine g=
un.
>
> It's apparently the Burmese term for an elephant handler.
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahout
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0In Burma, the profession is called oozie; in Thailand kwan-c=
hang; and in
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0Vietnam qu=E1=BA=A3n t=C6=B0=E1=BB=A3ng.
>
> We had a good laugh about all this in the #lucy_dev IRC channel a couple =
days
> ago. =C2=A0One of the participants (who free-associated "Oozie" with "suc=
king chest
> wound") suggested that Hadoop projects might consider referencing stuffed
> animals rather than elephants. =C2=A0:)
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
>
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