"Recent" History
- March - July 2005:
- Search for a new
project name:
- 76 proposed names in first list, 12 after closing out those with legal
implications
- March 23: Decision by the Council on using
"SeaMonkey" and releasing first final
version under 1.0 number
- Waiting on MoFo legal team, trying to register as trademark
- Suite rebranding:
- June 6: First (controlled) "leak" of new name into a small
rebranding patch
- June 29: Attachment of the big rebranding patch, including
placeholder logo (designed by CTho)
- July 2: rebranding lands, announcement up on new
project
website
- July - December 2005:
- Looking for new
logo (July 28 -
September 26):
- 197 different
proposals submitted by Mozilla and SeaMonkey community members
- hard decision process in dev community and Council
- meanwhile releasing SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha on September 15th using
placeholder artwork
- December 2nd: announcing logo created by Czech
contributor Alex Butin as winner (see
artwork
page)
- December 19: SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta released (using new logo)
- January 2006:
- January 30:
- SeaMonkey
1.0 released
- First stable release of new project
- Joe User starts to migrate from Mozilla suite to SeaMonkey
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