Contest!!!! Name that Hackerspace and Design that Logo

[Paul de Armond]

As Jen, Gary and i started working on some promotional/recruiting literature, the first things that rose up and bit us in the ass were:

• We don't have a logo; and
• There are problems with Bellingham Hack Space as a name (to wit: if you say "BHS" everybody thinks you are talking about high school and there is already another hackerspace with the initials BHS.)

In accordance in our unstated and unofficial policy of injecting the maximum amount of thrills, danger, lust and adventure in to any available situation, I have accordingly declared a contest.  You may submit as many names for the Hackerspace/Makerspace/tool library/thingy as you like.  Same goes for logos.

Email them direct to me paul...@gmail.com with the subject line Name or Logo or If you're really ambitious Name/Logo.

We will post them at the next meeting and people can throw darts at them or devise some other means of selection.

In the meantime, I've randomly chosen some completely unsuitable placeholders for the layout work.  Don't Panic!  Search and replace solves all sorts of problems, including this one.

Paul de Armond  599-6710

[Paul de Armond]

It's going to be Hack Bham effective December 1 unless somebody has an alternate proposal.  We need to get literature out for the general membership meeting in January.

[Steven Bochinski]

How about Hackingham ? or Bellinghack?

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[Martin Passmore]

Seeking inspiration, for once I remembered to peek at the classics

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/List_of_Hacker_Spaces

     --and am quite blown away by the range of themes and creativity expressed there (rather as I felt when I first found Eric Raymond's Hackers' Dictionary)

So there are the serious (Center for Internet and Society), (Montana Ethical Hackers); or just state purpose very directly (Lansing Makers Network), (4-H Robotics & Technology Club), (Interaccess electronic media arts centre), 

- do so less overtly, with wit (Embassy of Nerdistan), (HacMan), (CrashBang Labs), (Nerd-Cafe), (Dona Esperança =Lady Hope?), (Ohmspace), (Bitlair), (Hammer Time!), (Urban Rethink), (VoidWarranties), (FIXME), (Splat Space), (Sudo room), (Tinker Tank), (Jeanne D'Hack)

- have a geographical element in an interesting way (HackBo in Bogota), (Hickerspace in Hildesheim), (FredHack in Fredericksburg), (Columbus Idea Foundry), (Hackistan, in a real -stan)

- the totally obscure to the outsider, with a clue perhaps in the URL (Piel View Hackers/octopuscollective.org), (Fishburners)

- the in-your-face (Cyberhippietotalism),

- less-than-obvious but interesting (Blind Security Uganda), (Noisebridge), (Metrixcreatespace), (Jigsawrenaissance)

- some combination of the above (Geniaus), (Cowtown Computer Congress/c3kc.org)

I suppose my preference is a bit obvious, but so far I haven't come up with one.

Hack B(')ham is straightforward purpose/geography, in line with the majority. ('HamHack is tempting, but probably not a good idea).

Martin

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Paul de Armond <paul...@gmail.com> wrote:

It's going to be Hack Bham effective December 1 unless somebody has an alternate proposal.  We need to get literature out for the general membership meeting in January.

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[Steven Bochinski]

bellinghackspace

[Charles Banas]

I actually rather quite liked Paul's mockup flyers with the name "Full Wave." It seemed clever. :)

But I have to admit I'm rather partial to "Hack B'ham."

Charles Banas

[Martin Passmore]

"Full wave" works, implies that we're upright citizens, whitehats, fully rectified.

One possibility that I didn't see on the list was "Bits and atoms." It's usually used to make the point that it's cheaper to move data than stuff, but it would apply nicely to what we aspire to do. So how about bits&atomsnorth, I5mile255bitsnatoms, distal5bitsnatoms, or ultima5bits&atoms. (Of course we're only the farthest north on I5, someone in Yellowknife or Point Barrow or Ketchikan might feel that we're pretenders to the title. (Ultima Thule is the reference, hope it's not too obscure)).

[Paul de Armond]

I'm partial to Hack Bham logos and short forms, Hack Bellinghmam for legal documents.

This is partly me rolliing with the punches because I really like the deep inplication of a full wave bridge rectifier.  But consensus appears to be formenting Hack Bham and Hack Bellingham.

I will have dummies (all set for markup and distribution at this meeting friday.)

So please come this friday and bring a friend (or an enemy, or total bemused stranger.)  The final designs will be locked down. 

P.