Name the project so we can replace `cmd` throughout about zamba HOT 13 CLOSED

• camtrapbot
• animal-eye
• animalio (like Animalia, but with a .io)
• revelio

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I think we'd like to stay away from anything with chimp in the name since its so much more! SpeciesSpotter is my fave so far. Will keep thinking about it :)

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Welcome, @mimiarandjelovic! Glad to have your input here–feel free to ask around and drop any ideas in this thread 😄

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Potential Direction -- Swahili Word?

Nothing too concrete here, but I was just thinking it would be cool if there was a word for say, "jungle vision" or "jungle eye" that would fit our tool.

For example, looked up some Swahili proverbs and searched for "eye"

4207. Macho hayali, ushahidi wa kuona tu.  AL 1276.
Eyes don't eat, they are only witnesses.
Envy is sterile. AL.

4208.  Macho hayana pazia.  F.21.2; B.2.9; KB.143; FSM.92.
Eyes have no screen.
They see all that is in view, good or bad, and cannot be blamed for what they see.

Jicho halina mpaka.  NGU.
The eye has no boundary.

Macho hayana mipaka.  AL 465; AL, paka.
The eyes have no borders. They see all.

Really cool stuff, but we'd need a way to condense!

Unfortunately the word for eyes is macho, which sounds horrible in english. However the word for eye is jicho, which is better. jicho predict ... 👌

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Some ideas from one of our student assistants "pan-id, like from pamorama, or keeping track with camera

FaceThem

JungleEyes

ChimpTracker"

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We actually usually call the "jungle" the forest, so i thought maybe ForSee ("For" for "forest" ) -
maybe its too subtle though...

Jungle eye sounds good to me too a per Casey's idea :)

Swahili isn't spoken in too many countries with forests and apes, but maybe something in Lingala would be cool ?

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Thanks @mimiarandjelovic!

Just checked some Lingala-English dictionaries... may want to confirm, but both of these are cool too:

• zamba - forest
• liso - eye

A compound would also be nice but (a) don't know how to properly construct that, e.g., foresteye, (b) it would probably be too long.

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Checked with my Lingala speaking bud and he says both correct and adds: An old spelling of zamba is djamba

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I vote for djamba!

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Thanks again for surfacing the djamba option @mimiarandjelovic! If you and @colleenrs don't have any objections, we want to go with it. If we can get confirmation from you, we'll go ahead and close this issue.

Please let us know in the next 24 hours because @glipstein is starting to gather marketing materials for our web designer so they can get to working on a nice landing page for the tool 😄

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Djamba sounds great!

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@mimiarandjelovic our ever diligent content master @glipstein just turned this up: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-meaning-of-djamba

It is a West African idiom that generally is used as a synonym for "illicit drugs", particularly marijuana.

Any further insight on this? If true, do we care enough to change?

Thanks!

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@mimiarandjelovic @colleenrs

We're leaning towards zamba which from some Google searching seems safe. Any objections?

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