[Noisebridge-discuss] Informal Zine Planning Sesh 2night, Wednesday 12/21, 8 to 10pm-ish @ NoiseBridge

[Tony K. LeTigre]

Bridgedwarves, Noisegoblins, Hackerfolk, etc



I will be *@ 2169Mish tonight in the temporal vicinity of 8 to 10pm* for an
*informal Zine Planning & Brainstorm Session*. It may take place in the
Hackitorium, the Cafe, the Turing Classroom - whatever.

By the way, the zine-in-progress
<https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Zine>received its first report card
today and scored an overall grade of C++.
We're just getting started, you know.

I've brainstormed a whole list of possible names for the currently nameless
publication. Here are some of the best. Which ones do you like? Do you like
all of them? Do you like any of them? Do you have other suggestions?

WordBridge
Cyberballast                                          Scatterplot

NoiseRag                                             Unbearable
Complexity                         Polymath
Common Unicorn                                  Fish and Microchips
(FAM)                   Words Take Forever (WTF)
Silicon Travesty                                    Noise in Print
(NIP)                               White Noise Weekly (WNW)
PaperBridge                                          Orion's
Bracelet                                   Non-Consensual Hallucination
(NCH)
Macrozinetic                                          Obverse
Polarity                                   Digital Calamity
Twenty-one Sixty-nine                           10101 1000101
                                   Binary Profusion
Vegetarian Geometry
Metagogy                                             Proxy Music Express
(PME)
Unabridged Rainbow League (URL)       Hypertext
Reader                                 Queer Encryption
Inkjet Jaguar***                                          Crash
Report                                       Autoscroll
The Family Circuit                                   Byte-sized
Peace                                 Warp Factor Zero (WFZ)
Android Army Atlas (AAA)                       Tertiary
Kiosk                                       Pop Up Blocker (PUB)
Console Jelly
MP?                                                     News of Tomorrow


*Japanese monster movie reference


Danny suggested we have two different zines, one online and one in print. I
thought the print version would probably be a digest or compilation of the
best cuts from the online zine.

Right now the zine-in-progress <https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Zine> is
bloggish and disorderly. I would like to impose some organization upon it.
I brainstormed the following list of departments or sections. Additions?
Anyone want to cover one of these? Some are already covered, some loosely
so, some not at all.

*The Imagination Box *(Flights of fantasy, unclassifiable, trampolinear
thinking)
*
But Seriously *(a safe space for sincerity & honesty, iron-free zone, geeks
and depression, etc)*

Politics* (Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring, shrill humorless rants, etc)

*Technology* (Software, Hardware, circuit hacking, lasers, etc etc - the
meat & potatoes of hacking)

*News* (micro, macro, local, global)
*
Calendar *(for NoiseBridge, hacker events, related community events)*

TasteBridge* (Recipes, mushroom info, microbrewing, dinners, etc)

*Academia* (classes being taught, Corvid College, SF Free School, etc)
*
Fake Advertising* (I picture a Fake Advertising Department desk in Hacker
Alley where the staff Photoshops fake ads for the zine, makes prank phone
calls to businesses, & otherwise parodies & subverts the duties of a
typical newspaper advertising department)

*Culture / Literary Conceits* (Creative Writing, number poems, haikus about
hacking, book & film reviews, etc)

*Games* (board games, RPGs, Xbox, Sega, Halo, Go, DND, w/e)

*Discuss / Debate / Disparage

Letters / Mail*

*Satire / Humor / Fun *(No politics, not PC)

*Crafts / Home Improvement *(sewing, wood shop, upcycling, etc)
*
Photography / Film / Audio*

*Diversity / Anti-Oppression / Inclusiveness*
*
Community / Society Gossip / Bulletin Board*


By the way, I was thinking we need a fabulous secretary like Karen from
Will & Grace to sit in the entrance area & welcome visitors - except our
secretary would be looking through tech mags instead of fashion ones, &
maybe she'd be part cyborg or something. Always with a martini glass.

I hope to talk to some people tonight. I'm excited about the
potentialities, but I can't (and won't) do this alone.


Tony Longshanks <https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/User:Tony_Longshanks>
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