Eclipse Community Forums: Eclipse Foundation

Help

Home

Home » General (non-technical) » Eclipse Foundation » Why Indigo?(General interest)

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Why Indigo? [message #686325]

Tue, 21 June 2011 23:20

Doug Abbott
Messages: 30
Registered: July 2009

Member

I'm really puzzled about where the name Indigo came from because, as far as I can tell, it's not a moon of Jupiter. I had expected to find something on the Eclipse website that would explain it, but so far I've come up empty handed.

Report message to a moderator

(no subject) [message #686541 is a reply to message #686325]

Wed, 22 June 2011 08:59

Eclipse Webmaster
Messages: 145899
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On 06/21/2011 11:20 PM, Doug Abbott wrote:
> I'm really puzzled about where the name Indigo came from because, as far
> as I can tell, it's not a moon of Jupiter. I had expected to find
> something on the Eclipse website that would explain it, but so far I've
> come up empty handed.
>

It was suggested by Jeff McAffer in March 2010, and it stuck... You can
read all the suggestions here:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=306864#c32

Report message to a moderator

Re: (no subject) [message #686547 is a reply to message #686541]

Wed, 22 June 2011 09:39

Doug Abbott
Messages: 30
Registered: July 2009

Member

Thanks.

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic:	Final week of Indigo DemoCamps
Next Topic:	Announcing EclipseCon 2012 North America

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

]

Current Time: Sat May 18 17:39:37 EDT 2013