Name Discussion

As a lot of you mentioned... FreeCAD is not a very good name for this project. There fore maybe its time to think of a new one. This page is fore that purpose.

Maintainers thoughts
For me FreeCAD was always a working or project name. Especially because FreeCAD is not really a CAD yet but more an ongoing effort to put a lot of engineering software together to create something bigger then the pieces. To create maybe a community which take the torch of Open Source in a field of software which is still held hostage by Dassaults and Autodesks.

But which name to give such an effort?? Who knows??? ;-)

Maybe something completly different, like an animal name?

So join the discussion:

Cons of the name FreeCAD

 * The (older) freeCAD Project
 * FreeCAD.org is already used/blocked

Pros of the name FreeCAD

 * Already known
 * At least in the German Google the first hit of "FreeCAD" is our project

Possible new names

 * HobbyCad ;-)