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== Allizom Project announces continuation of Mozilla suite ==
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
    <small>''Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)''</small>


'''VIENNA, Austria''' - The new community project that has evolved around [http://www.mozilla.org/seamonkey-transition.html Mozilla Foundation's suspension of the Mozilla suite] proudly announces it's new name, '''Allizom'''.
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After searching through a large list of suggested names, the Allizom Council, which is managing the project, finally decided upon that name early in the morning of April 1, 2005.  Asked about the reasons for that choice of name, Neil Rashbrook, an Allizom Council member and long-time Mozilla developer, replied "We ultimately chose to adopt the name 'Allizom' after determining all other proposed names to be unusable. Also, we liked the sound of it, and it is definitely not currently in use for any other project. We wanted to create something new, but still stay with something of the old. Not only that, it's the same length as the previous name and it also makes us show up first in alphabetical lists of available web browsers and mail/news clients."
The official project name is "SeaMonkey".


"We will deliver an Alpha version of our first release, Allizom 1.0, within the next weeks", added the Allizom release manager, Chris Thomas. "Users of Mozilla 1.7.x or even the Mozilla 1.8 Alpha and Beta releases will get a new stable release of the product they are used to. Netscape 7.x users will also feel at home with the new Allizom suite. Allizom tries to unite these broad user bases under its new name, with new power."
Announcement of project name: [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/news.html#2005-07-02 SeaMonkey Project Continues Internet Suite]


Quality Assurance lead Andrew Schultz commented, "Although we are, by necessity, working with a reduced staff and greatly diminished resources, we hope to provide unparalleled security and reliability in the upcoming release by intelligently leveraging what resources we have."  Interested users are invited to join the QA team - stop by #seamonkey on irc.mozilla.org and ask how you can help out!
The first stable release of SeaMonkey was version 1.0, which is based on Gecko 1.8.0.x code, and SeaMonkey 1.1 is based on Gecko 1.8.1. The current stable release branch is SeaMonkey 2.0, based on Gecko 1.9.1. We will release SeaMonkey 2.1 based on Gecko 2.0 and are currently working hard on finishing up this project.


The Allizom suite contains a state-of-the-art web browser and a feature-rich mail and newsgroups client, along with a simple yet powerful HTML editor, web development tools and an IRC chat application.
The "1.0" version number was picked because the Mozilla Foundation urged us not to use the previous suite versioning scheme, so we could not go with 1.8 for the Gecko-1.8-based suite. Additionally, we are a new project, a completely new development team and this is our first stable release, warranting the 1.0 version number.


http://allizom.org, the Allizom website is still under construction; the Allizom Council chose to immediately inform the public of this exciting step forward for our project.
The project decided on a new logo on December 2, 2005. For further details see the [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/artwork.html SeaMonkey artwork page]. The new logo is used in SeaMonkey 1.0, and in the current trunk and branch nightly builds.


Both the name and the logo have been registered as trademarks by the Mozilla Foundation (providing legal backing for the SeaMonkey project) in the US and have filed such registrations in the EU and Japan.


=== Origin of the name "SeaMonkey" ===


''Seamonkey'' (with lower-case m) has been the codename for the Mozilla Suite for some time, though it originally was invented by Netscape management as a codename for the release later called ''Netscape 6'' &mdash; they simply needed a "politically correct" version of the codename ''Buttmonkey'' (symbolised as *~ and making a [http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/rheeeeet.mp3 "rheet" sound]) their developers had actually voted for (and apparently ''Jenga'' was the run-in in this voting).
(Thanks to dveditz, Google cache and pseudorandom.org IRC logs for helping us to find out about that.)


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The real "Sea-Monkeys" (Artemia Nyos) are a hybrid of Artemia Salina (brine shrimp). Read more about those animals in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea-Monkey Wikipedia].
There is no official project name as of yet, however the [[SeaMonkey:Project_Organization#SeaMonkey_Drivers|Council]] (project drivers) has decided on a project name. The Mozilla Foundation is currently submitting the name as a US trademark on the project's behalf. Once the name has been cleared, it will be announced publicly.


Most of the documentation refers to the project as SeaMonkey.  SeaMonkey has been the project's codename since the time of Netscape, and will probably continue to be the codename. If the offical name is not SeaMonkey, the visual documentation will be changed to reflect the new name.
By the way, the German translation of the name, ''Seeaffe'', is an alias for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_mink Sea Mink (Mustela macrodon)], which is an extinct species (hunted for its highly-valued fur, extinct around 1890) of the Mustelidae or weasel family. A close, still living, relative to that animal can be viewed in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mink Wikipedia article]. Interestingly, weasels might look similar to small foxes and the codename for unofficial modified builds of Firefox is ''Iceweasel''. ;-) By the way, while the Chinese word for ''Firefox'' can refer to both the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fox red fox] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Panda red panda]; the latter is a closer relative to the Sea Mink than the former.


SeaMonkey will start as version 1.0, after alpha and beta releases.
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The official project name is "SeaMonkey".

Announcement of project name: SeaMonkey Project Continues Internet Suite

The first stable release of SeaMonkey was version 1.0, which is based on Gecko 1.8.0.x code, and SeaMonkey 1.1 is based on Gecko 1.8.1. The current stable release branch is SeaMonkey 2.0, based on Gecko 1.9.1. We will release SeaMonkey 2.1 based on Gecko 2.0 and are currently working hard on finishing up this project.

The "1.0" version number was picked because the Mozilla Foundation urged us not to use the previous suite versioning scheme, so we could not go with 1.8 for the Gecko-1.8-based suite. Additionally, we are a new project, a completely new development team and this is our first stable release, warranting the 1.0 version number.

The project decided on a new logo on December 2, 2005. For further details see the SeaMonkey artwork page. The new logo is used in SeaMonkey 1.0, and in the current trunk and branch nightly builds.

Both the name and the logo have been registered as trademarks by the Mozilla Foundation (providing legal backing for the SeaMonkey project) in the US and have filed such registrations in the EU and Japan.

Origin of the name "SeaMonkey"

Seamonkey (with lower-case m) has been the codename for the Mozilla Suite for some time, though it originally was invented by Netscape management as a codename for the release later called Netscape 6 — they simply needed a "politically correct" version of the codename Buttmonkey (symbolised as *~ and making a "rheet" sound) their developers had actually voted for (and apparently Jenga was the run-in in this voting). (Thanks to dveditz, Google cache and pseudorandom.org IRC logs for helping us to find out about that.)

The real "Sea-Monkeys" (Artemia Nyos) are a hybrid of Artemia Salina (brine shrimp). Read more about those animals in Wikipedia.

By the way, the German translation of the name, Seeaffe, is an alias for the Sea Mink (Mustela macrodon), which is an extinct species (hunted for its highly-valued fur, extinct around 1890) of the Mustelidae or weasel family. A close, still living, relative to that animal can be viewed in the Wikipedia article. Interestingly, weasels might look similar to small foxes and the codename for unofficial modified builds of Firefox is Iceweasel. ;-) By the way, while the Chinese word for Firefox can refer to both the red fox and the red panda; the latter is a closer relative to the Sea Mink than the former.

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