I don't have a clear response yet - it's somewhere between 'abstain' and a no. If it was my own private project, I think I would choose another name. If Veqtor seems to work for everyone else, I would still ask for a moment's reflection on any other possibilities that may come up within the two days allotted for decision.

My hesitation comes from:

• the spelling tweak of 'vector' is a slightly cheesy touch, in my mind, in line with a lot of other 'flash in the pan' silicon valley startup branding...unless there is some other significance to the spelling choice here

• Vector, as a concept, to me references only a small portion of what the platform is about. It sounds like more the level of a plugin than a robust kernel or ecosystem

• the phonetics are kind of clunky: Veck. Tor...not very lively, spatial, organic, fluid, or um...feminine?

• another common reading of vector (in epidemiological sense) has negative connotation

I gave this question a bit of thought last night on way to sleep, and the only other term that popped to mind was the "Verge" label that I put on recent MM game experiment. I'll see what else comes up tho, and get back with ya here soon!

Transposing some of my fave alternatives from email thread:

sentis
n.edgr (pronounced "nedgar")
orgNL ("organelle")

and a new one that might be my current top pick:

Librium

thanks for your input. I hear your associations, i’ll take the opportunity to expand a bit more on it:

a few reasons i like veqtor:

• we are building a semantic vector space.
• a vector space is a coordinate space
• implies scalability (graphically) - post-pixel
• unique name enables differentiation and findability
• as for the q, potential for unique visual identity
• relevance to the tech’s fields of inquiry

i also quite like this - dispersal vectors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersal_vector

i get didn’t get a strong positive response from any of the names that you proposed - though some might be interesting as different identities to inhabit and form. especially as it gets more lifelike. i think veqtor is an identity that we can inhabit for awhile before it metamorphasizes into something new.

Two quick thoughts this morning before I'm on the subway.
1. Thanks for the other considerations Ben.
2. Whatever name we go with, I definitely think this is important. Are we going to brand what we give to reap with a watermark or something like "powered by vector"?

It is a fairly significant 'brand' decision - I don't see this core tech bundle as something that will be morphing through different identities. As I understand it, this is to become an open source software foundation, something that many different platforms and identities will be built on top of.

In essence, it is a visual programming environment for semantic information systems, correct? So yes, 'vector' is a pertinent and energetic label on that level, although it doesn't hint at any of the richer implications of emergence, systems, learning. I would like for something of that nature to resonate in the name.

I do quite like Librium, although it goes a bit in the opposite direction and loses the sense of structure and dynamism. A thought: Librium actually came to mind out of the phrase 'vector equilibrium' championed by Bucky Fuller (patron saint of Black Mtn!):

http://cosmometry.net/vector-equilibrium-&-isotropic-vector-matrix

...and I wonder if the two (veqtor + librium) could somehow be complementary aspects of the open source Metamaps framework? I'm thinking of the potential for a new distributed storage system, or federated database, that will eventually be a crucial piece of the picture here for truly scalable and collective implementations.