We are ”’Ace Monster Toys”’ as of the meeting on [[May 24, 2010]]. [http://quinnnorton.com/ Quinn Norton] came up with the idea for searching for further anagrams of [[wikipedia:Sneakers_(film)|Setec Astronomy]].
The below is from the exploratory committee notes on selecting a name.
=== Requirements ===
* Evocative of the spirit of what we’re trying to do
* Composed of 7-bit ASCII characters
* Untaken domain name
* English would be nice
* Not offensive in another UN language
* Does not refer to bodily functions or fluids
* Not a terrorism keyword
* Not a password
* Pronounceable
* Spelled correctly (if applicable)
* Can be filed with the CA. Secretary of State and the IRS
* Does not refer to any felonious activities
* Not an incitement to riot
* Does not result in undesirable other hits on a web search for the name
* Not the name of a famous person or animal
* Not trademarked in the US
* Not a cause of embarrassment when said to family members or significant others.
=== Tests ===
* Walk straight up to a person and say the name and not feel like you’re 12
* How is it going to look spray-painted on the side of a train car
=== First Round Picks ===
Everybody put their favorite from the below list here
* Ace Monster Toys: Turkshead, Swinger-dude, Dr. Jesus, gittel, sfiche, leks, dfletcher
* The Hacknologists: davr
* Robot Army Liberation Front (RALF): zedd
* Hack East Bay: mattholland
* Heaviside Space: atala
* Beast Lab(s): albill
=== List of potential names ===
Think of this as brainstorming
* Ace Monster Toys (anagram for setec astronomy)
* Animated
* Bay Area Rapid Hack Troupe (BARHT)
* Bayside Beatnik Hackers
* Bayside Hackers
* BeastBot
* Beast Lab(s)
* Beastreality
* Bourgeoise Hacking Society
* British Petroleum and Antimatter
* Circlehack Industries
* Circlejerk
* Cool people doing cool stuff
* Daisychain Hackerspace
* East Bay Fab Lab
* East Bay Hacker Revival
* East bay maker co-op
* East Bay Makers of Unsafe Devices (EBMUD)
* Eastronics
* Eastsiade
* Eastside Hackers
* Electric Hammock
* Electric Hamster
* Employ Ape Technology (EAT) Labs
* Federal Robot Task Force (FRTF)
* Fruit fucker industries
* Fuck you, leave us alone
* FUSociety
* Ghettoakland
* Giant robot factory
* Giant robot liberation front
* HackEastBay
* Hysterical Engineers Losing LymphomA (HELLA)
* Hacklab
* Hacksturbation
* Hackupation
* Heaviside Space
* His Imperial Majesty’s Royal Hacking Society
* His Majesty’s Hacking Society or HMHS (an [[Wikipedia:Emperor_Norton|Emperor Norton]] reference)
* The Royal Society of Alameda County for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge (after [[wikipedia:Royal Society|Royal Society]])
* It’s spelled with two e’s
* jankengineering.com
* Main Engineering
* N Beast
* Nerdvana (blocked by existing corporation)
* People for the Liberation of Robots
* People’s Hacking Society
* Powerhack 5000
* Robot Army Liberation Front (RALF)
* Robot Liberation Front (RLF)
* Robot’s Front of Berkeley
* Royal Hacking Society
* Setec Astronomy
* Shiny Thing Fab, Unlimited (STFU)
* Shiny Things Factory Unlimited (STFU)
* Some kind of Pirate/Robot/Monkey equivalent of Hacker Dojo
* That Place
* The factory factory
* There
* Token Ring
* Too many secrets
* vi
* Wik
* :wq
* X.500
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