On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I was thinking... should our new museum have a formal name, as in, "The XYZ Place, sponsored by the Vintage Computer Federation"...?
Or if anyone asks, do we just call it VCF Headquarters?
If we do think it should have some name, then what should that name be?
I like how Paul Allen's group calls their place a "living" museum. Of course, that word is taken, so we'd need some other word.
Maybe "museum" also isn't the right word. Our home at InfoAge is more of a hub and community center for vintage computing in the region. Perhaps, if we give it a name, we should think of a word that reflects this.
It would be awesome if the perfect word also started with F to continue our theme of the Vintage Computer Federation owning the Vintage Computer Festival (East/West), Vintage Computer Forum, and Vintage Computer... Funhouse? Fraternity? No, those don't work.
Let's hear some suggestions (real ones please; let's not clog the thread with the smart-assery.)
I'm thinking that unless we come up with something GREAT, then we should just stick with Vintage Computer Federation as the name for the physical space.
Not claiming that many of these are "good", just brainstorming. Or maybe barnstorming... Foundation Facility Flagship (I actually like this one) Fun-torium Façade Facet Factory Faculty Farm Farmland Feast Fascination Fact-o-rama Fabulousness Fabrication - Fabricatorium Fabulation (it is a word) Faction Factor Facts-of-life Fairground Family Fanaticism Fantastico Fatherland Feature Femto-infinity (weird math) Fenestration (windows) Feretory (look it up) Fermentation Fiat Fiber Fibrillation Fidelity Field Firestorm Fiesta Figurehead Finale Find Finest First (Evan's favorite word) Fixture Flabbergast Flackery Focal Point Focus Font Footnote Force (as in may it be with you) Forbear Forefathers Forefront Foreground Forever Forget-me-not Formation Fort Fortification Forte Fossil Foundry Fractal Fraction Fragmentation Frame Free-for-all Frequency Front FUBAR (maybe a separate room in the museum) Fulcrum Fulfillment Full-monty :-) Full-house Full-tilt Full-scale Functionality Fundamentals Fun-topia Futurama (possibilities?)