I was running out of ideas and the thesaurus was running dry. I was trying to think of names that could have a fun logo but related to reporting somehow. I had gone through Sarge (honestly...eek) and almost went with django informer before I decided to find a tool to help me find related words. So I found OneLook’s Reverse Dictionary. It’s a bit plain, but is definitely going to be a fixture in my brainstorming shelf.
So, doing a reverse search on informer gave me canary. And I figure that bird logos haven’t done other folks harm. Besides, the cornier part of me digs the canary in a coal mine idea, where your data is the coal mine. Hopefully the ease of creating new reports will help people learn more from their data.
Also, the name that I’d been using was basic_reports, which is clearly lame, not to mention increasingly inaccurate as I was seeing more potential in the setup and adding more bells.