For context : How to stimulate User Growth of TW? - #56 by jeremyruston
Both @Mark_S and @jeremyruston made very good points. In my opinion if the name should be changed, it would be best sooner than later, while the community is still relatively small. So let’s start brainstorming !
In my mind, tiddlywiki is like a tree progressively growing a multitude of branches. It relies on ever changing networks, interconnected network that can become truly massive while being at its core a single entity.
As a fun fact, the largest organism in the world is this aspen tree : Pando. It occupies 108 acres (43.6 ha) and is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000 tonnes, making it also the heaviest organism on earth and may be the oldest too (several thousand years old). Pando is Latin for “I spread”.
The longevity of that organism, the fact that it is a single entity and yet a multitude of interconnected individuals spanning from a common root make me think this would be an appropriate name for TiddlyWiki. The name is also perfect : a tiddlywiki file is always growing, its content spreading in all directions.
Thus, my suggestion is “Pando” or “PandoWiki”. What’s yours ?
Edit: Following the comment of @Jon, I changed the title of this thread from “Let’s brainstorm a name for the next version of TiddlyWiki” to “Let’s brainstorm a name for the next version of TiddlyWiki”.