Insert your ideas on naming conventions for sahana releases.Please keep in mind that this project is used in high-stress situations, so names should be non-offensive across multiple culture-spaces and stress levels.

Since this is a brainstorming area, there are no bad entries, the object is to get ideas down. We'll vote later.

• Naming after weather risks (not disasters)
• Naming after disaster types
• Naming after influential people
• Naming after countries or cities that been subject of disasters since Sahana's inception
• Naming after languages that our group speaks
• Naming after disaster (place name) location where Sahana has been most recently deployed (i.e. latest release = last deployment).
• Named “Sahana” translated in local language where Sahana has been deployed.
• Release 1.0 should be named Sahana, Sri Lanka, Colombo or tsunami… later releases can use new names
• Named after historical disasters e.g. Mt Vesuvius 79AD, suggest we start with Indian Ocean Earthquake 2004 — Gavin Treadgold 2009/12/10 03:07
• Given temporary name (could be existing numeric or any honorific non-location/non-event name), then, if deployed in a natural disaster, renamed after that location/event. — Glenn Pearson 20009/12/10

• Rain release (weather)
• Thunderstorm release (weather)
• Tsunami release (disaster)
• Earthquake release (disaster)
• JamesLeeWitt release (people)
• NelsonMandela release (people)
• Aceh release (place)
• Samoa release (place)
• Sinhalese release (language)
• Bihar release (deployment)
• Sahana release (translated)
• Relief release (translated)

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