Trash. Name

The project was named vispy!

Our project needs a name. Selecting a name is often a time-consuming process because four people will never all like the same name at the same time. To speed this up, I suggest we use these criteria for choosing a name, in order of importance:

1. The name is not similar to any trademarked software (required).
2. The name is not already in use as a python module (required).
3. There are no (significant) similar projects of the same name (highly recommended).
   • See: http://wiki.python.org/moin/NumericAndScientific/Plotting
4. projectname.org is available (highly recommended).
5. The project must be easy to find on google (recommended).
6. The name is not too long and can be pronounced (preferred).
7. The name is appealing.

Candidates

Please add possible names here with a list of search hits, and vote on other names with your initials.

pyvis

• Current name, nice and short
• Clashes:
  • http://pyvis.sourceforge.net/ [LC: I think this makes the name unusable for us]
  • some crappy website: http://pyv.is/ (this is redirected from pyvis.org)
  • a bunch of small github projects

vispy [AK] [LC]

• Motivation: this name fits the numpy / scipy naming scheme
• vispy.org is available
• Clashes:
  • http://code.google.com/p/vispy/ Small project used in education, inactive for almost three years. It is not an actual package. Owners have been contacted and they have no problem with us using the name.
  • https://github.com/MatzeB/vispy, very small project, inactive for three years

vipy [CR] [LC]

• https://github.com/johndgiese/vipy Small but recent project related to vim. Appears to be a plugin, probably won't cause package name conflicts?
• vipy.org is available

vizpy [CR] [LC]

• vizpy.org is available

pyvisual [LC]

• Name does not exist in the internets
• pyvisual.org is available