Choose a package name

[Islast]

Update:
Please help us choose a package name by voting and suggesting in this poll 🎉 ✨ 🌸
You can find a little background information on what we're doing and why we need to choose a new name in our blog

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A naming convention for python packages and modules is reccomended in PEP 8

Modules should have short, all-lowercase names. Underscores can be used in the module name if it improves readability. Python packages should also have short, all-lowercase names, although the use of underscores is discouraged.

What do you think gang? Should we stick to our guns and go BrainNetworksInPython, compromise on brainnetworksinpython, bnip, pythonbrainnetworks, brainnetworks, networkbrains, or abandon propriety and go networknoggins

[KirstieJane]

Deeeeeeecisions!! 😬😬😬

I’d love to tweet this but we need a little more information about the project to go with the question.

Would you be up for writing a mini blog post (5-10 sentences!) to explain what we’re aiming for and why we need a name? I don’t know if there’s an easy way to embed a poll in Jekyll but that might be fun! Very simple google form maybe?

Also, have you done any googling for these names? Or brain networks in python packages that already exist? We need to make sure they don’t overlap.

I will say that we should definitely conform to the guidelines - no need to go rogue on the camel case etc.

[Islast]

Great. Yes I will write up a blog post and check what's already been taken

[KirstieJane]

Could also include py in the various names rather than python? So pybrainnets maybe?

(Soooo many options!)

[Islast]

Suggested this morning by a friend: turnip (=turing networks in python). No reference to brains unfortunately, but what a cute idea!

[Islast]

Note to self: poll.ly is a good tool for polls to which voters can add suggestions

[Islast]

The blog post is now up https://whitakerlab.github.io/blog/Boaty-McBrainNetworksInPython/

[Islast]

We have finally firmly settled on the new name scona 🎉 🍪