<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Just throwing my .02 in, </div><div><br></div><div>I'm a fan of either Noisebridge, or noisebridge, anything else just seems too long and will end up getting modified or truncated.</div><div><br></div><div>(An alternative is camel casing it to make it even more geeky! noiseBridge that way you can do noiseBridge.inc or noiseBridge.<anything> :) )</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers, </div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On May 22, 2008, at 2:52 AM, Noah Balmer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I think Mitch makes an excellent point. I'm also thinking, were we to go with Noise Bridge, we'd end up typing Noisebridge all the time anyway because it's easier. It sounds like "Noisebridge" is in the majority at the moment, and I haven't heard any strong objections. I'm going to go ahead and change it in the Bylaw draft. If everyone's satisfied with that, let's leave it alone, if not, we talk more. If no one weighs in with an opposing viewpoint in the next few days I'll start normalizing the wiki toward that orthography.<br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Mitch Altman <<a href="mailto:maltman23@hotmail.com">maltman23@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> I'm somewhat more partial to Noisebridge. With "Noisebridge", if people do a search on google for us, we come up #1, whereas with "Noise Bridge", we'd be in the noise.<br><br>Mitch.<br><br><br> <blockquote><hr>Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 19:58:31 -0700<br>From: <a href="mailto:noahbalmer@gmail.com" target="_blank">noahbalmer@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:albill@arcanology.com" target="_blank">albill@arcanology.com</a><br> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] naming<br>CC: <a href="mailto:noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net" target="_blank">noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br><br>A draft, yes, but it needs work. (<a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php/Bylaws" target="_blank">link</a>)<br> <br>I think Noisebridge or Noise Bridge, no qualifiers, are good. We can always trademark, or just use, all the elaborated versions too, so we can use Noisebridge Labs, Noisebridge Cooperative, Noisebridge Research, Noisebridge Insurrection (sounds like a party), or whatever else takes our fancy, while keeping the official name simple and non-specific<br> <br><div>On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Al Billings <<a href="mailto:albill@arcanology.com" target="_blank">albill@arcanology.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote style="padding-left: 1ex;"> Was a draft of the by-laws completed yesterday?<br><font color="#888888"> <br> Al</font><div><div></div><div><br> <br> <br> <br> On May 21, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <<a href="mailto:jacob@appelbaum.net" target="_blank">jacob@appelbaum.net</a>> wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote style="padding-left: 1ex;"> David Molnar wrote:<br> <blockquote style="padding-left: 1ex;"> Andy Isaacson wrote:<br> <br> <blockquote style="padding-left: 1ex;"> Noise Bridge Labs<br> Noise Bridge Cooperative<br> Noise Bridge Association<br> Noise Bridge Services<br> <br> </blockquote> <br> </blockquote> <br> I think Noise Bridge is good because in good times, we'll be a lab if<br> that is our direction. Or we'll be a Co-op. Or whatever we'll be,<br> noisebridge will mean just those things.<br> <br> <blockquote style="padding-left: 1ex;"> I suggest this: the first person to finish writing a complete draft of<br> the bylaws on the wiki has the right to nominate names. Now let's see if<br> that's an inducement. ;)<br> <br> </blockquote> <br> We've already done this. Too many players have a stake it in ;-)<br> <br> I suggest we leave it as Noise Bridge or Noisebridge.<br> <br> -Jake<br> _______________________________________________<br> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net" target="_blank">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br> </blockquote> _______________________________________________<br> Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net" target="_blank">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br> <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss" target="_blank">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> </div></div></blockquote></div> </blockquote></div><br> _______________________________________________<br>Noisebridge-discuss mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net">Noisebridge-discuss@lists.noisebridge.net</a><br><a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss">https://www.noisebridge.net/mailman/listinfo/noisebridge-discuss</a><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>