[vcf-midatlantic] Should the new museum have a name?

[Dean Notarnicola]

​*The Center for Interactive Vintage Computing (CIVC)*

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
>