[vcf-midatlantic] Should the new museum have a name?
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Mar 3 19:44:17 EST 2016
On 03/03/2016 02:08 PM, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic
> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>> That's why I started this thread by asking for an alternative to "living"
>> since that is already taken. I also said that we'd be very happy to have an
>> equally ideal one-word synonym for "community center" since we're more than
>> just a museum. Best of all would be if that word starts with 'F' to fit our
>> scheme of Festivals / Forum / ???? but I know that's asking a lot.
>
>
> The Society for Historical Computing at the InfoAge Science Center?
> The NJ Society for Historical Computing at the InfoAge Science Center?
> The NJ Society for Historical Computing?
>
> The idea of using society was to make it important but social.
>
> Alternatives were "association, club, group, circle, fellowship,
> guild, lodge, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, sorority, league,
> union, alliance"
>
> Fellowship sounds too Tolken.
>
> I like Guild.
The Computer History Preservation Guild was a working name for LSSM
for awhile. I grew to hate it.
"Guild" sorta implies a group of people, while the museum is a place.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
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