Private Dancer?

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

September 9, 2005

As I was going over some notes on our internal wiki, I ran across a list of rejected names for the framework that become Django:

  • brazos
  • superglue
  • bodhisattva
  • webbing
  • boidae
  • bohdi
  • skoro
  • consolidata
  • piston
  • physique
  • silhouette
  • valance
  • anson
  • The Python Web Framework (PWF)
  • Tornado Publishing System
  • Web Type Framework
  • Pypeline
  • super magic machine
  • magic machine
  • private dancer
  • “the CMS”
  • The Give-a-Damn machine
  • boltdozer
  • banister
  • garbonzo
  • Simon
  • fizgig
  • palmy
  • cogent
  • pith
  • pithy
  • pyth
  • pythy
  • festoon
  • poeks
  • lavalier
  • clerisy
  • bandwidth
  • django

Comments:

Simon Willison:

I still think you should have got The Tornado Publishing system in there somewhere. Just think of those lovely reports...

david ryan:

Ha. I'd forgotten most of these.

Brazos cracks me up. SXSW/Austin inspired, and it rolls of the tongue.

Adrian Holovaty:

BRAZOS!

Eric Moritz:

Who's the Buddhist, with suggestions like, Bodhisattva and Bodhi, someone has to be :)

Levi:

Man, I wish I'd been in on some of these discussions. You guys had all the fun downstairs.

Rune:

Both silhouette and Pypeline were good names!

Mikkel:

OMG, I'm glad they went with Django!

Dylan:

This is hilarious! I am a web developer (I just do the programming-other people do the Flash and graphics and what not) and sometimes meet with clients. Every once in a while, we decide that Django is the best solution for their goal. I could just imagine the conversation with some other name:

"Well, yes sir, after looking over the information you have given us, we decided it would be best to proceed using the Give-A-Damn Machine."

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