Re: [school-discuss] ISO Award suggestions and Software Freedom

[David Bucknell <david@members.iteachnet.org>]

This is a good one. Artists out there?

David
Quoting Jim Aird <jimaird@hometech.org>:

> How about the Open Mind Award.
> Open for OSS and for out of the box thinking
> Mind for education, learning etc
> Open Mind for, well, having an open mind
> 
> Jim
> On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 08:24 AM, mike eschman wrote:
> 
> > hello,
> >
> > to keep it friendly and color-blind neutral, how about "the do-nut".
> >
> > mike eschman, etc ...
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday 05 February 2003 10:07 am, Kyle Hutson wrote:
> > . Douglas S. Blank wrote:
> > .
> > .  > Of course, these would be limited to free/open source. Suggest 
> > giving
> > .  > the award a name (something more encompassing than penguins, tux, 
> > etc):
> > .  >
> > .  >   Golden Apple Award (overused)
> > .  >   Golden Chalk Award (has been used a couple of times)
> > .  >   Golden Bit Award (also used a couple of times)
> > .  >   Golden Forge Award (not used; not a bad name)
> > .  >   Golden Nibble Award (not used, but an esoteric computer term, 
> > but
> >  cute) .
> > . How about a "golden doughnut award" - since they're open. I tried to
> > . think of other "open" things, but "golden puff-pastry award" just 
> > didn't
> > . have a good ring to it.
> > .
> > . Does it have to be "golden"?
> > .
> > . "open apple award" sounds too much like the reset sequence on the 
> > early
> > . Apple computers (yes, it's sad that I still remember this).
> > .
> > . Any more esoteric computer terms? All I can think of off the top of 
> > my
> > . head are networking (packet, port, ACK, SYN) which may not be 
> > appropriate.
> > . More to the human side: Fingers, Brain, Caffeine, perhaps?
> > .
> > .
> >
> > -- 
> > (http://www.etc-edu.com ) Not just an afterthought ...
> 
> 


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