[hackerspaces] Renaming a Space

[David Powell]

I setup a google moderator as Justis suggested. Thanks for the tip:
http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=3fa58&t=3fa58.40

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:23 PM, David Powell <davepow16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I kind of like B-More Hack More
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Justis Peters <justis.peters at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Name it "B-More Hack More"
>>
>> At SplatSpace, we used http://www.google.com/moderator/ in order to
>> source both suggestions and votes on the name. We asked people to vote only
>> if they were local and likely to visit the hackerspace, but we didn't
>> actively police that. Overall, I was very happy with how Google Moderator
>> worked for this task.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Justis
>>
>>
>> On 11/23/2010 12:01 PM, Mark Huson wrote:
>>
>>> Baltimore Node North to match HackPGH (Baltimore Node West) :)
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:38 AM, B Strand<strand at jigsawrenaissance.org>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Baltimore HackLabs
>>>>
>>>> Sent from a phone, please excuse typos and brevity.
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 23, 2010 2:58 AM,<discuss-request at lists.hackerspaces.org>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Re: Cleaning up the wiki "list of hackerspaces" (Peter Smith)
>>>>> 2. CCHits - an automated Podcasting Project (Jon Spriggs)
>>>>> 3. Renaming a Space (David Powell)
>>>>> 4. Re: Renaming a Space (Nate Bezanson)
>>>>> 5. Re: Renaming a Space (dosman)
>>>>> 6. Re: Cleaning up the wiki "list of hackerspaces" (Koen Martens)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Message: 1
>>>>> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:54:59 -0600
>>>>> From: Peter Smith<peters242 at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Cleaning up the wiki "list of
>>>>> hackerspaces"
>>>>> To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List
>>>>> <discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org>
>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>> <AANLkTi=RpS2gvA1Ws3jQ651cNSqe5SdosMz=ychUQ4W+ at mail.gmail.com<ychUQ4W%2B at mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> >
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>>>>>
>>>>> To fix some of the clutter, I propose a "REFRESH" button to be
>>>>> available for any entry that is not "active" or "building".. There
>>>>> would be a time-to-live applied (30 days?), which would force the
>>>>> entry to drop from the listing whenever someone hasn't physically hit
>>>>> the "REFRESH" button within the time-to-live (this would at least
>>>>> allow those entries/hackerspaces that no longer have any humans that
>>>>> care about them to get automatically cleaned up.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 14:40, Ben Brown<ben at kwartzlab.ca>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> What about splitting/filtering the list depending on
>>>>>> Open/Planned/tomato?
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> think the 'planned' spaces are almost as important to those who are
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> textbook definition of 'Open'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Message: 2
>>>>> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:09:36 +0000
>>>>> From: Jon Spriggs<jon at sprig.gs>
>>>>> Subject: [hackerspaces] CCHits - an automated Podcasting Project
>>>>> To: Hackerspaces Discussion List<discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org>
>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>> <AANLkTi=Ld3wdLr45jMsLw0sSeO+mbf1Om7FuqwfOG3FR at mail.gmail.com<Ld3wdLr45jMsLw0sSeO%2Bmbf1Om7FuqwfOG3FR at mail.gmail.com>
>>>>> >
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>>>>>
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> A few months back, I was talking to a few of you about an idea for a
>>>>> podcast that I'd had. The podcast was designed for a few separate
>>>>> purposes:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) It showcases great Creative Commons licensed music tracks, giving
>>>>> favour to tracks preferred by the audience.
>>>>> 2) It's a programming project, to see how easy (or hard!) it is to
>>>>> create an automatically produced podcast.
>>>>> 3) Once a few tracks have been added, it should be possible for public
>>>>> spaces (such as, oh... I dunno, maybe a hackerspace?) to download a
>>>>> long series of tracks (maybe listed in hours - like "8 hours of
>>>>> Creative Commons, Family Safe Music" or "24 hours of music, including
>>>>> non-family-friendly music") to provide background music for the
>>>>> venues, without (theoretically) requiring a PRS or PPL license.
>>>>> 4) It encourages existing podcasts to play Creative Commons licensed
>>>>> tracks and get feedback from their audience on which tracks are
>>>>> enjoyed by their listeners.
>>>>>
>>>>> For those of you who might like to hear some Creative Commons music,
>>>>> the site is:
>>>>>
>>>>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?http://cchits.net
>>>>>
>>>>> For those of you who are artists that release your music under
>>>>> Creative Commons, or if you're a podcaster, and play Creative Commons
>>>>> tracks as a part of that, please feel free to give me a shout about
>>>>> making the tracks you play available through the site with links back
>>>>> to your shows:
>>>>>
>>>>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? email: show at cchits.net (currently just an alias
>>>>> for jon at sprig.gs but in time this may change)
>>>>>
>>>>> For those of you who might be interested in how it all hangs together,
>>>>> details on where to get the code and how to use the comprehensive API
>>>>> is available from:
>>>>>
>>>>> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? http://cchits.net/about/
>>>>>
>>>>> Please feel free to forward this e-mail on to anyone you think might
>>>>> be interested in this project.
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Message: 3
>>>>> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:13:38 -0500
>>>>> From: David Powell<davepow16 at gmail.com>
>>>>> Subject: [hackerspaces] Renaming a Space
>>>>> To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List
>>>>> <discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org>
>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>> <AANLkTike-KX_u75+5wm_ytj5Cik5B3K9fGEzJqJ2zX+W at mail.gmail.com<AANLkTike-KX_u75%2B5wm_ytj5Cik5B3K9fGEzJqJ2zX%2BW at mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>>
>>>>> We have been known as Harford Hackerspace since January 2009. The
>>>>> problem
>>>>> is
>>>>> that we operate out of Baltimore County, MD. When I started the space I
>>>>> lived in Harford but 8 of 10 of our members are from Baltimore so we
>>>>> decided
>>>>> it would be best to establish the space there.
>>>>>
>>>>> It has resulted in potential members not even looking at our space.
>>>>> It's
>>>>> amazing how many people eventually do find us and let us know that had
>>>>> they
>>>>> know we were in Baltimore they would come more often and participate in
>>>>> more
>>>>> of our events. So it's time to change our name.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please give us some suggestions. We are a well established hackerspace
>>>>> and
>>>>> we would really like to expand. We are a well rounded group with
>>>>> experts
>>>>> in
>>>>> Software and Hardware. We tend to do more hardware. Another hackerspace
>>>>> is
>>>>> located in Baltimore City and they go by the name Baltimore Node.
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know if you need more information in order to make suggestions
>>>>> that
>>>>> fit our group. You can always check out our website at
>>>>> www.harfordhackerspace.org to see what we do.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you
>>>>> David Powell
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>>>>> Message: 4
>>>>> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:50:00 -0500
>>>>> From: "Nate Bezanson"<myself at telcodata.us>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Renaming a Space
>>>>> To: "Hackerspaces General Discussion List"
>>>>> <discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org>
>>>>> Message-ID:
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>>>>>
>>>>> Well, since The Detroit Facility was a flop and eventually supplanted
>>>>> by
>>>>> i3Detroit, I figure it's time to give the name another chance at life.
>>>>> I'll suggest The Baltimore Facility.
>>>>>
>>>>> Some of our early logo ideas:
>>>>> http://wiki.detroitfacility.org/index.php/Logo
>>>>>
>>>>> Lately I've been keeping a list of interesting potential space names
>>>>> that
>>>>> bubble into my head. I only started writing them down last week, but so
>>>>> far I have:
>>>>>
>>>>> Opposable Thumbs Studio, or just Opposable Thumbs
>>>>>
>>>>> New Make City
>>>>>
>>>>> Sufficiently Advanced
>>>>>
>>>>> Tinkergarden
>>>>>
>>>>> Silicon Studio
>>>>>
>>>>> Silicon and Steel
>>>>>
>>>>> Make It So
>>>>>
>>>>> Blinkenmore (just for you!)
>>>>>
>>>>> It's hard to admit that your existing name isn't right, and even harder
>>>>> to
>>>>> abandon the branding/advertising/reputation-building you've done thus
>>>>> far.
>>>>> But I think it's the right thing to do in the long run, if you can find
>>>>> a
>>>>> new name that really does work substantially better.
>>>>>
>>>>> Good luck!
>>>>> -Nate-
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> We have been known as Harford Hackerspace since January 2009. The
>>>>>> problem
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> that we operate out of Baltimore County, MD. When I started the space
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> lived in Harford but 8 of 10 of our members are from Baltimore so we
>>>>>> decided
>>>>>> it would be best to establish the space there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It has resulted in potential members not even looking at our space.
>>>>>> It's
>>>>>> amazing how many people eventually do find us and let us know that had
>>>>>> they
>>>>>> know we were in Baltimore they would come more often and participate
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> more
>>>>>> of our events. So it's time to change our name.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please give us some suggestions. We are a well established hackerspace
>>>>>> and
>>>>>> we would really like to expand. We are a well rounded group with
>>>>>> experts
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> Software and Hardware. We tend to do more hardware. Another
>>>>>> hackerspace
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> located in Baltimore City and they go by the name Baltimore Node.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me know if you need more information in order to make suggestions
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> fit our group. You can always check out our website at
>>>>>> www.harfordhackerspace.org to see what we do.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>> David Powell
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> Discuss mailing list
>>>>>> Discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
>>>>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Message: 5
>>>>> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:50:39 -0500
>>>>> From: dosman<dosman at packetsniffers.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Renaming a Space
>>>>> To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List
>>>>> <discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org>
>>>>> Message-ID:<5B580D51-4C1B-4955-BC09-483F9BF6E418 at packetsniffers.org>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Baltimore Co. Hackerspace Department - make sure to use a makerbot-
>>>>> printed sheriff's star in your new logo. We have a pizza joint locally
>>>>> that has a very similar name actually.
>>>>>
>>>>> -dosman
>>>>>
>>>>> On Nov 22, 2010, at 4:13 PM, David Powell wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> We have been known as Harford Hackerspace since January 2009. The
>>>>>> problem is that we operate out of Baltimore County, MD. When I
>>>>>> started the space I lived in Harford but 8 of 10 of our members are
>>>>>> from Baltimore so we decided it would be best to establish the space
>>>>>> there.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It has resulted in potential members not even looking at our space.
>>>>>> It's amazing how many people eventually do find us and let us know
>>>>>> that had they know we were in Baltimore they would come more often
>>>>>> and participate in more of our events. So it's time to change our
>>>>>> name.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please give us some suggestions. We are a well established
>>>>>> hackerspace and we would really like to expand. We are a well
>>>>>> rounded group with experts in Software and Hardware. We tend to do
>>>>>> more hardware. Another hackerspace is located in Baltimore City and
>>>>>> they go by the name Baltimore Node.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me know if you need more information in order to make
>>>>>> suggestions that fit our group. You can always check out our website
>>>>>> at www.harfordhackerspace.org to see what we do.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>> David Powell
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> Discuss mailing list
>>>>>> Discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
>>>>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> Message: 6
>>>>> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:40:59 +0100
>>>>> From: Koen Martens<gmc at sonologic.nl>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Cleaning up the wiki "list of
>>>>> hackerspaces"
>>>>> To: Hackerspaces General Discussion List
>>>>> <discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org>
>>>>> Message-ID:<20101123004058.GG24361 at chasmcity.sonologic.nl>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:39:25PM -0800, Lokkju Brennr wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm pretty sure it is the fact that the main page will only list 500
>>>>>> hackerspaces: limit=500
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Perhaps if we clean up the list somewhat, we don't need the limit
>>>>> anymore?
>>>>> i've personally always wondered why closed spaces are on the main list,
>>>>> and
>>>>> i know of some entries that shouldn't be on there in nl. I've always
>>>>> been
>>>>> hesitating about removing them though. i do agree the planned&
>>>>>  building are
>>>>> important to be on the 'main' list.
>>>>>
>>>>> gr,
>>>>>
>>>>> gmc
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> lOKi // brainsilo.org
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Simon Dorfman<simon at gumbolabs.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was looking for a hackerspace in Dallas (since I was visiting for
>>>>>>> board
>>>>>>> game geek con, so much fun!) and the Dallas Makerspace wasn't on that
>>>>>>> page.
>>>>>>> I was able to find it by clicking on the state of Texas and finding
>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>> listed there. ?I tried to "fix it", but didn't see what was missing
>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>> this page that would stop it from showing up on the big list page:
>>>>>>> http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Dallas_Makerspace
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -Simon
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>>> Discuss mailing list
>>>>>>> Discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
>>>>>>> http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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