An important consideration is that while many languages, including English, tend to rename countries (Deutschland -> Germany, España -> Spain, Nederland -> The Netherlands), renaming cities is much less common. Berlin stays Berlin, and the same is true of Madrid, Amsterdam, and so forth. Equally important, in this specific case English-speakers still use "Cordoba." If you Google "Cordova, Spain" (with the quotes), Google will ask you "Did you mean 'Cordoba, Spain'?".

I really like that Cordova is the name of the street where Nitobi was based and think that's a perfect basis for naming the project. It has a great answer to the inevitable question "why is it called that?" which other software projects (ahem, GNU) have done a poor job answering. Since far more people have heard of Cordoba the city than have heard of Cordova the street, it makes sense to keep the same great backstory and just change the spelling slightly to better appeal to the majority to whom it sounds peculiar. For those people, I suspect Cordova sounds a bit like "Peking" does to most of us today.

For those reasons, I think Cordoba with a "B" is the best option, and it has my vote, though it appears that some sort of re-voting may be required with multiple options so that it is a proper vote.

--Ben

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Shazron <shaz...@gmail.com> wrote: