> 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.

> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk

> >> 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"

> >>> …?

> >>> m.