SOC Backronym Madness

As Wayne reports in this post, we have a minor trademark problem with the "new" SOC technology project at Eclipse.

So, to help define a good backronym, I've composed this list of Some Options to Consider...

• Students' Outstanding Code
• Students Of Consequence
• Seeking Optimal Code
• Selfless Open-source Committers
• Students as Open-source Committers
• Students Opting for Cash
• Spiffy Opportunity for Cash
• Somewhat Organizationally Chaotic (!)
• Source: Open? Cool.

Or, we could just trademark it as "Eclipse SOC", and never define what "SOC" actually stands for, a la GWAR.

We could also just rebrand, like Mylar/Mylyn did:

• SOSC: "Summer Of Student Committers"
• SPOCK: "Summer Projects Of Code Kids"
• SOCK: "Summer Of Coding Keeners"
• SPORK: "Some Projects Of Real Keeners"

Too bad 'Ed The Sock' ("Eclipse Development That Harnesses Eager Summer Of Code Kids") is probably already trademarked. ;-)