On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Martin Dittus wrote:
> In some of our current promo materials we use the tagline "A cross between a tech conference and a music festival". We decided we would like to change the latter part, because while we do want to encourage lots of musical contributions the term "music festival" may have some misleading connotations (e.g. for me: drunken/drugged masses in muddy mosh pits.) Plus we don't want people to come for a music festival and not be interested in what we consider the core of it all: a great social gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities.
> Got suggestions for alternatives?
> On IRC just now we came up with:
> "a cross between a community meetup and a camping festival"
> "A community camping trip"
> "a maker community in a field"
> "a tent city of makers, in a field"
> "a splendid gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities"
Can't really think if any good ones but here are some:
Learning from the past and preparing for the future
Learning from the past and creating the future
You can't have a flying car, but you can have gigabit ethernet to your tent.
Camping in the future we should have had.
Tea, Talks, Technology & Tents
Intensive Technology, in Tents!
Camping, Circuits, Computers & Cake!
EMFCamp: The Hackers Village Fete.
EMFCamp: The Geekiest Village Fete in the Country.
> > In some of our current promo materials we use the tagline "A cross
> between a tech conference and a music festival". We decided we would like
> to change the latter part, because while we do want to encourage lots of
> musical contributions the term "music festival" may have some misleading
> connotations (e.g. for me: drunken/drugged masses in muddy mosh pits.) Plus
> we don't want people to come for a music festival and not be interested in
> what we consider the core of it all: a great social gathering of
> DIY/hacker/maker communities.
> > Got suggestions for alternatives?
> > On IRC just now we came up with:
> > "a cross between a community meetup and a camping festival"
> > "A community camping trip"
> > "a maker community in a field"
> > "a tent city of makers, in a field"
> > "a splendid gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities"
> Can't really think if any good ones but here are some:
> Learning from the past and preparing for the future
> Learning from the past and creating the future
> You can't have a flying car, but you can have gigabit ethernet to your
> tent.
> Camping in the future we should have had.
> Tea, Talks, Technology & Tents
> Intensive Technology, in Tents!
> Camping, Circuits, Computers & Cake!
> EMFCamp: The Hackers Village Fete.
> EMFCamp: The Geekiest Village Fete in the Country.
On 4 June 2012 14:51, SamLR <sam.lindenrat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Quick note: as far as I know the "Get excited and make things" design is CC
> but it was first made (I think) by Matt Jones [1]. If we go with using it I
> think it would be polite to ask him first.
Matt is a friend so I could ask him, but I don't think it's a
particularly good idea to appropriate another slogan.
> BTW are we "EMF"/"Electro Magnetic Field" or "EMFcamp" as the more I think
> of it the more "Electro Magnetic Field camp" sounds very silly...
The full name is Electromagnetic Field. emfcamp is just the shortened version.
*flash*
Narrator: In a world, filled with geeks. One man stands alone...
nerdy person1: "i have more exabytes than you".
Narrator: With only one option to survive...
nerdy person2: "adjust the streamlining XML spoofers"
Narrator: Becomming one of "them".
Protagonist (introvertly enraged): I. HAVE. TO. BECOME. a Neeerd.
Narrator: Not knowing the challenges he has to face
nerdy person 3: "I need ALL your magic cards!"
nerdy person 3.5: "You cannot make up any better tagline for the camp"
nerdy person 3.7: "I am locutus of Borg"
(stacking audiosamples of nerdy persons)
Protagonist (falling on knees): Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Narrator: Starring an unknown protagonist *flash* Russsss G *flash*
the 9000 tagline nerds *flash* even more volunteers *flash*
Protagonist (optimistic): It's over 42!!!
nerdy person4 (vegeta style): "it's over 9000!!!!!" (smacks protagnist)
Narrator: EMF CAMP. The full name is Electromagnetic Field. emfcamp is
just the shortened version.
*flash*
> *flash*
> Narrator: In a world, filled with geeks. One man stands alone...
> nerdy person1: "i have more exabytes than you".
> Narrator: With only one option to survive...
> nerdy person2: "adjust the streamlining XML spoofers"
> Narrator: Becomming one of "them".
> Protagonist (introvertly enraged): I. HAVE. TO. BECOME. a Neeerd.
> Narrator: Not knowing the challenges he has to face
> nerdy person 3: "I need ALL your magic cards!"
> nerdy person 3.5: "You cannot make up any better tagline for the camp"
> nerdy person 3.7: "I am locutus of Borg"
> (stacking audiosamples of nerdy persons)
> Protagonist (falling on knees): Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
> Narrator: Starring an unknown protagonist *flash* Russsss G *flash*
> the 9000 tagline nerds *flash* even more volunteers *flash*
> Protagonist (optimistic): It's over 42!!!
> nerdy person4 (vegeta style): "it's over 9000!!!!!" (smacks protagnist)
> Narrator: EMF CAMP. The full name is Electromagnetic Field. emfcamp is
> just the shortened version.
> *flash*
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Yuwei Lin <yuwei....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > EMFcamp - A relaxing retreat for hackers, makers, tinkers and all alike!
On 11 Jun 2012 12:40, Elger Jonker <elger.jonker@gmail.com> wrote: *flash*
Narrator: In a world, filled with geeks. One man stands alone...
nerdy person1: "i have more exabytes than you".
Narrator: With only one option to survive...
nerdy person2: "adjust the streamlining XML spoofers"
Narrator: Becomming one of "them".
Protagonist (introvertly enraged): I. HAVE. TO. BECOME. a Neeerd.
Narrator: Not knowing the challenges he has to face
nerdy person 3: "I need ALL your magic cards!"
nerdy person 3.5: "You cannot make up any better tagline for the camp"
nerdy person 3.7: "I am locutus of Borg"
(stacking audiosamples of nerdy persons)
Protagonist (falling on knees): Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Narrator: Starring an unknown protagonist *flash* Russsss G *flash*
the 9000 tagline nerds *flash* even more volunteers *flash*
Protagonist (optimistic): It's over 42!!!
nerdy person4 (vegeta style): "it's over 9000!!!!!" (smacks protagnist)
Narrator: EMF CAMP. The full name is Electromagnetic Field. emfcamp is
just the shortened version.
*flash*
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Yuwei Lin <yuwei.lin@gmail.com> wrote:
> EMFcamp - A relaxing retreat for hackers, makers, tinkers and all alike!
> -- Sent from my HP TouchPad. Yes, really!
> On 11 Jun 2012 12:40, Elger Jonker <elger.jon...@gmail.com> wrote: > *flash* > Narrator: In a world, filled with geeks. One man stands alone... > nerdy person1: "i have more exabytes than you". > Narrator: With only one option to survive... > nerdy person2: "adjust the streamlining XML spoofers" > Narrator: Becomming one of "them". > Protagonist (introvertly enraged): I. HAVE. TO. BECOME. a Neeerd. > Narrator: Not knowing the challenges he has to face > nerdy person 3: "I need ALL your magic cards!" > nerdy person 3.5: "You cannot make up any better tagline for the camp" > nerdy person 3.7: "I am locutus of Borg" > (stacking audiosamples of nerdy persons) > Protagonist (falling on knees): Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! > Narrator: Starring an unknown protagonist *flash* Russsss G *flash* > the 9000 tagline nerds *flash* even more volunteers *flash* > Protagonist (optimistic): It's over 42!!! > nerdy person4 (vegeta style): "it's over 9000!!!!!" (smacks protagnist) > Narrator: EMF CAMP. The full name is Electromagnetic Field. emfcamp is > just the shortened version. > *flash*
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Yuwei Lin <yuwei....@gmail.com> wrote: > > EMFcamp - A relaxing retreat for hackers, makers, tinkers and all alike!
> On 11 Jun 2012, at 16:10, "AlisonW" <alis...@gmail.com > <mailto:alis...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> I am not a nerd! I am a free geek!
>> (with apologies to Pat McGoohan)
>> -- Sent from my HP TouchPad. Yes, really!
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> On 11 Jun 2012 12:40, Elger Jonker <elger.jon...@gmail.com >> <mailto:elger.jon...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> *flash*
>> Narrator: In a world, filled with geeks. One man stands alone...
>> nerdy person1: "i have more exabytes than you".
>> Narrator: With only one option to survive...
>> nerdy person2: "adjust the streamlining XML spoofers"
>> Narrator: Becomming one of "them".
>> Protagonist (introvertly enraged): I. HAVE. TO. BECOME. a Neeerd.
>> Narrator: Not knowing the challenges he has to face
>> nerdy person 3: "I need ALL your magic cards!"
>> nerdy person 3.5: "You cannot make up any better tagline for the camp"
>> nerdy person 3.7: "I am locutus of Borg"
>> (stacking audiosamples of nerdy persons)
>> Protagonist (falling on knees): >> Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
>> Narrator: Starring an unknown protagonist *flash* Russsss G *flash*
>> the 9000 tagline nerds *flash* even more volunteers *flash*
>> Protagonist (optimistic): It's over 42!!!
>> nerdy person4 (vegeta style): "it's over 9000!!!!!" (smacks protagnist)
>> Narrator: EMF CAMP. The full name is Electromagnetic Field. emfcamp is
>> just the shortened version.
>> *flash*
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Yuwei Lin <yuwei....@gmail.com >> <mailto:yuwei....@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > EMFcamp - A relaxing retreat for hackers, makers, tinkers and all >> alike!
Because film festivals and Jazz festivals don't have those
connotations of drunken masses and muddy mosh pits, everyone knows
what a festival is it's only when you add music onto the front people
think about those other things.
> In some of our current promo materials we use the tagline "A cross between a tech conference and a music festival". We decided we would like to change the latter part, because while we do want to encourage lots of musical contributions the term "music festival" may have some misleading connotations (e.g. for me: drunken/drugged masses in muddy mosh pits.) Plus we don't want people to come for a music festival and not be interested in what we consider the core of it all: a great social gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities.
> Got suggestions for alternatives?
> On IRC just now we came up with:
> "a cross between a community meetup and a camping festival"
> "A community camping trip"
> "a maker community in a field"
> "a tent city of makers, in a field"
> "a splendid gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities"
> Because film festivals and Jazz festivals don't have those
> connotations of drunken masses and muddy mosh pits, everyone knows
> what a festival is it's only when you add music onto the front people
> think about those other things.
> On Jun 3, 1:20 pm, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> In some of our current promo materials we use the tagline "A cross between a tech conference and a music festival". We decided we would like to change the latter part, because while we do want to encourage lots of musical contributions the term "music festival" may have some misleading connotations (e.g. for me: drunken/drugged masses in muddy mosh pits.) Plus we don't want people to come for a music festival and not be interested in what we consider the core of it all: a great social gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities.
>> Got suggestions for alternatives?
>> On IRC just now we came up with:
>> "a cross between a community meetup and a camping festival"
>> "A community camping trip"
>> "a maker community in a field"
>> "a tent city of makers, in a field"
>> "a splendid gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities"
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Funnily enough, the one I'm probably going to go for is: "A summer festival for makers."
> :)
> m.
> On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:48, MSRaynsford wrote:
>> A festival for Makers or a Makers Festival
>> Because film festivals and Jazz festivals don't have those
>> connotations of drunken masses and muddy mosh pits, everyone knows
>> what a festival is it's only when you add music onto the front people
>> think about those other things.
>> On Jun 3, 1:20 pm, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In some of our current promo materials we use the tagline "A cross between a tech conference and a music festival". We decided we would like to change the latter part, because while we do want to encourage lots of musical contributions the term "music festival" may have some misleading connotations (e.g. for me: drunken/drugged masses in muddy mosh pits.) Plus we don't want people to come for a music festival and not be interested in what we consider the core of it all: a great social gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities.
>>> Got suggestions for alternatives?
>>> On IRC just now we came up with:
>>> "a cross between a community meetup and a camping festival"
>>> "A community camping trip"
>>> "a maker community in a field"
>>> "a tent city of makers, in a field"
>>> "a splendid gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities"
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Aden <a...@aden.org.uk> wrote:
> why not "A summer festival for hackers".... "makers" excludes hackers
> that don't make anything.
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Funnily enough, the one I'm probably going to go for is: "A summer festival for makers."
>> :)
>> m.
>> On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:48, MSRaynsford wrote:
>>> A festival for Makers or a Makers Festival
>>> Because film festivals and Jazz festivals don't have those
>>> connotations of drunken masses and muddy mosh pits, everyone knows
>>> what a festival is it's only when you add music onto the front people
>>> think about those other things.
>>> On Jun 3, 1:20 pm, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> In some of our current promo materials we use the tagline "A cross between a tech conference and a music festival". We decided we would like to change the latter part, because while we do want to encourage lots of musical contributions the term "music festival" may have some misleading connotations (e.g. for me: drunken/drugged masses in muddy mosh pits.) Plus we don't want people to come for a music festival and not be interested in what we consider the core of it all: a great social gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities.
>>>> Got suggestions for alternatives?
>>>> On IRC just now we came up with:
>>>> "a cross between a community meetup and a camping festival"
>>>> "A community camping trip"
>>>> "a maker community in a field"
>>>> "a tent city of makers, in a field"
>>>> "a splendid gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities"
> why not "A summer festival for hackers".... "makers" excludes hackers
> that don't make anything.
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Funnily enough, the one I'm probably going to go for is: "A summer
> festival for makers."
> > :)
> > m.
> > On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:48, MSRaynsford wrote:
> >> A festival for Makers or a Makers Festival
> >> Because film festivals and Jazz festivals don't have those
> >> connotations of drunken masses and muddy mosh pits, everyone knows
> >> what a festival is it's only when you add music onto the front people
> >> think about those other things.
> >> On Jun 3, 1:20 pm, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> In some of our current promo materials we use the tagline "A cross
> between a tech conference and a music festival". We decided we would like
> to change the latter part, because while we do want to encourage lots of
> musical contributions the term "music festival" may have some misleading
> connotations (e.g. for me: drunken/drugged masses in muddy mosh pits.) Plus
> we don't want people to come for a music festival and not be interested in
> what we consider the core of it all: a great social gathering of
> DIY/hacker/maker communities.
> >>> Got suggestions for alternatives?
> >>> On IRC just now we came up with:
> >>> "a cross between a community meetup and a camping festival"
> >>> "A community camping trip"
> >>> "a maker community in a field"
> >>> "a tent city of makers, in a field"
> >>> "a splendid gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities"
> On 12 June 2012 03:19, Aden <a...@aden.org.uk> wrote:
> why not "A summer festival for hackers".... "makers" excludes hackers
> that don't make anything.
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Funnily enough, the one I'm probably going to go for is: "A summer festival for makers."
> > :)
> > m.
> > On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:48, MSRaynsford wrote:
> >> A festival for Makers or a Makers Festival
> >> Because film festivals and Jazz festivals don't have those
> >> connotations of drunken masses and muddy mosh pits, everyone knows
> >> what a festival is it's only when you add music onto the front people
> >> think about those other things.
> >> On Jun 3, 1:20 pm, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> In some of our current promo materials we use the tagline "A cross between a tech conference and a music festival". We decided we would like to change the latter part, because while we do want to encourage lots of musical contributions the term "music festival" may have some misleading connotations (e.g. for me: drunken/drugged masses in muddy mosh pits.) Plus we don't want people to come for a music festival and not be interested in what we consider the core of it all: a great social gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities.
> >>> Got suggestions for alternatives?
> >>> On IRC just now we came up with:
> >>> "a cross between a community meetup and a camping festival"
> >>> "A community camping trip"
> >>> "a maker community in a field"
> >>> "a tent city of makers, in a field"
> >>> "a splendid gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities"
Using both the words Makers and Hackers covers pretty much every end of the spectrum. Also having the work 'Maker' in there is enough to make people question the intent of the word Hacker.
As an aside, we should NOT be prancing around trying to avoid using the word Hacker, we should be grabbing the word and making it mean what it originally meant. Educate the world to what it really is. A good example is that Steve Woz was a Hacker in the traditional sense, except he was making computers, not breaking into peoples bank accounts.
> Haha. That remark strikes me as a speech against our undefined
> non-human overlords.
> For me this thread is to have fun an think of ridiculous tag lines,
> even though i have much better things to do.
> Camp op Champions.
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Aden <a...@aden.org.uk> wrote:
>> why not "A summer festival for hackers".... "makers" excludes hackers
>> that don't make anything.
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Funnily enough, the one I'm probably going to go for is: "A summer festival for makers."
>>> :)
>>> m.
>>> On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:48, MSRaynsford wrote:
>>>> A festival for Makers or a Makers Festival
>>>> Because film festivals and Jazz festivals don't have those
>>>> connotations of drunken masses and muddy mosh pits, everyone knows
>>>> what a festival is it's only when you add music onto the front people
>>>> think about those other things.
>>>> On Jun 3, 1:20 pm, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> In some of our current promo materials we use the tagline "A cross between a tech conference and a music festival". We decided we would like to change the latter part, because while we do want to encourage lots of musical contributions the term "music festival" may have some misleading connotations (e.g. for me: drunken/drugged masses in muddy mosh pits.) Plus we don't want people to come for a music festival and not be interested in what we consider the core of it all: a great social gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities.
>>>>> Got suggestions for alternatives?
>>>>> On IRC just now we came up with:
>>>>> "a cross between a community meetup and a camping festival"
>>>>> "A community camping trip"
>>>>> "a maker community in a field"
>>>>> "a tent city of makers, in a field"
>>>>> "a splendid gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities"
> Using both the words Makers and Hackers covers pretty much every end of the spectrum. Also having the work 'Maker' in there is enough to make people question the intent of the word Hacker.
> As an aside, we should NOT be prancing around trying to avoid using the word Hacker, we should be grabbing the word and making it mean what it originally meant. Educate the world to what it really is. A good example is that Steve Woz was a Hacker in the traditional sense, except he was making computers, not breaking into peoples bank accounts.
> Jake
> On 12 Jun 2012, at 00:05, Elger Jonker wrote:
>> Haha. That remark strikes me as a speech against our undefined
>> non-human overlords.
>> For me this thread is to have fun an think of ridiculous tag lines,
>> even though i have much better things to do.
>> Camp op Champions.
>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Aden <a...@aden.org.uk> wrote:
>>> why not "A summer festival for hackers".... "makers" excludes hackers
>>> that don't make anything.
>>> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Funnily enough, the one I'm probably going to go for is: "A summer festival for makers."
>>>> :)
>>>> m.
>>>> On 11 Jun 2012, at 18:48, MSRaynsford wrote:
>>>>> A festival for Makers or a Makers Festival
>>>>> Because film festivals and Jazz festivals don't have those
>>>>> connotations of drunken masses and muddy mosh pits, everyone knows
>>>>> what a festival is it's only when you add music onto the front people
>>>>> think about those other things.
>>>>> On Jun 3, 1:20 pm, Martin Dittus <deks...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In some of our current promo materials we use the tagline "A cross between a tech conference and a music festival". We decided we would like to change the latter part, because while we do want to encourage lots of musical contributions the term "music festival" may have some misleading connotations (e.g. for me: drunken/drugged masses in muddy mosh pits.) Plus we don't want people to come for a music festival and not be interested in what we consider the core of it all: a great social gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities.
>>>>>> Got suggestions for alternatives?
>>>>>> On IRC just now we came up with:
>>>>>> "a cross between a community meetup and a camping festival"
>>>>>> "A community camping trip"
>>>>>> "a maker community in a field"
>>>>>> "a tent city of makers, in a field"
>>>>>> "a splendid gathering of DIY/hacker/maker communities"
