Hi everyone! :wave: We need your help choosing the names for our upcoming “U” and “V” releases ! This is a fun way to leave your mark on the Open edX community, and the process is simple: :green_circle: How it works: Propose a tree name :evergreen_tree: for either the “U” release or the “V” relea…

Ulm (Ulmus is the scientific name for elm trees)

Viburnum No reason but, this is interesting: The leaves, bark and berries are all POISONOUS to man

Viburnum - Wikipedia is going to be the only thing that comes up for V, which I don’t love as it’s a lot of letters and maybe easy to misspell (I keep wanting to write “vibranium”), plus, is like kind of a tree at best. The only other “v” things I’m finding are flowers - vanilla, violet, verbena.

There is at least one other tree for V: Vitex

I wanted to change my vote from Viburnum to Vitex, but it turns out you can’t un-like a post. So I have voted for 2 “V” names, sorry! You can ignore my Viburnum vote. ( @jalondonot , it is your discretion, but I recommend removing that rule that we can only vote once. When each person can vote for o…

Thanks for the suggestion, @kmccormick . It makes sense to me and I’ve already edited the original post to include your feedback.

Isn’t there Valencia? V: Valencia

for the U – ULMUS I suggest the Latin name of the ELM, which is Ulmus, very common in Italy too for the V – Viburnum which is a pretty common tree

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Asad_Khawaja (Asad Khawaja) September 26, 2024, 5:48pm 7

I propose Ulmo, the south american bee tree whose honey can symbolise collaboration.

Verawood as the name for the Next Open edX “V” Release!

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