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Conference room name battle
[Update 8/02/04: Voting is closed – see the results.]
We’ve received dozens of good suggestions in the Name My Conference Rooms contest. Here are the five six finalists:
Please vote for your favorite. Vote early, but only vote once. If I see suspicious IP address voting patterns, I reserve the right to throw away votes. So as not to upstage our upcoming national election, there will be no verifiable paper trail. The winner will receive random CoreStreet goodies and a $150 gift certificate from Amazon.com. The runner-up will just get the goodies.
Voting will close at 11:59 PM (eastern US time), Sunday, July 31st August 1st. Winners will be announced on Monday.
Fight!
[Nepotism alert: the “planetary mnemonics” entry was submitted by my brother, or someone pretending to be him.]
[Update: Sunday is the 1st, not the 31st.]
July 28, 2004 | Permalink
Comments
Clarification required: I'm only voting for "Historically Important Fortifications" if the Maginot Line is included.
Posted by: RoboSapien | Jul 29, 2004 9:06:50 AM
Probably too late for a new idea, but what about Linux distribution names? (Mandrake, RedHat, Suse, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Fedora, Turbo, Icepack, Stampede) Man, you certainly wouldn't lack for choices on this one.
Paul
Posted by: Paul | Jul 29, 2004 1:03:37 PM
You're a security company, right? It's all about spies/secret identities.
Posted by: Brenda | Jul 29, 2004 1:15:13 PM
We’re a serious company dealing with identity and security issues. The conference room naming process can be a bit of fun.
Posted by: Phil Libin | Jul 29, 2004 1:25:30 PM
A mutual friend suggested I vote, and I chose the Bermuda Parishes. After I saw how popular that choice was, I hesitate to offer an additional suggestion: Jazz nicknames. Bird, Diz, Pres, Bix, Sassy, Pops, Satchmo, Sweets, Duke, Count, Slide, Bean, Fatha, Jelly Roll, Fathead, Fats, Cootie, Zoot
Posted by: Dave Leonnig | Jul 29, 2004 3:58:39 PM
"Historically Important Fortifications" of course. How do you go wrong with that?
Posted by: Victor | Jul 29, 2004 6:53:33 PM
I was adviced by a friend to cast the most important vote (supersiding Oct. !). Fortifications rules, BUT be carefully when picking the names. E.g. Normandy is not a fortification - Das Atlantik Wall was...
cheers from rainy Finland to you all !
Posted by: Jouko | Jul 30, 2004 1:14:58 AM
I was adviced by a friend to cast the most important vote ( exceeding Oct. !). Fortifications rules, BUT be carefully when picking the names. E.g. Normandy is not a fortification - Das Atlantik Wall was...
cheers from rainy Finland to you all !
Posted by: Jouko | Jul 30, 2004 1:17:44 AM
If the forts win, consider Vauban, Ticonderoga, and Palmanova.
Posted by: The Commissar | Jul 31, 2004 12:36:21 AM
Hey Josh this is bryce i am one of lukes many friends i hope you win the poll!
best of luck to ya!
Posted by: Bryce Carr | Aug 1, 2004 7:35:42 PM
How about naming them for rivers, for example: Mississippi, Missouri, St. Lawrence, St. Johns, Tennessee, Nile, Amazon, Rio Grande, Danube, Volga, Rhine, Seine, Rhone, Ohio, Colorado, etc.
Posted by: Tom | Jul 24, 2006 3:03:02 PM
How about :
Eiffel
Empire
Vatican?
Posted by: Ramya | Nov 15, 2007 5:05:09 AM
How about the Ponderosa? Maybe Little Bighorn?
Posted by: Nick Lyon | Jan 9, 2008 7:26:22 PM
