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 More options Jun 11 2012, 9:58 pm
From: SamLR <sam.lindenrat...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:58:47 +0900
Local: Mon, Jun 11 2012 9:58 pm
Subject: Re: [uk-hack-camp] Re: EMF needs a better tagline. Send your suggestions :)

What about "creators"

it should be pink, by the way.

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.

> >> 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.


 
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