The first one is a joke. The rest are serious attempts. On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Jonathan Roberts <robertsthebr...@gmail.com > wrote:
> An "Ice Griller." I just ice grilled that project. > > A commoner? Doesn't have a verb form... > > A Wampeter? Tickles my Vonnegut bone. Is technically misusing the term, > but to kind of a fun effect: What is the wampeter of this Karass? It's you. > "I'm wampeting that." > > Also trying to find something from Ursula K. Le Guinns "The Left hand of > Darkness." It's about two people on a snow covered planet trying > desperately to remove the entrenched political and cultural obstacles that > stand in the way of them joining the interconnected universe of settled > worlds. Seems appropriate, but I can't find a term that really works. > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Bryan Richter <b...@chreekat.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 10:08:07AM +0100, mray wrote: >> > >> > On 02.11.2015 03:32, Aaron Wolf wrote: >> > > >> > > [Do] you have a real problem with the word "patron"? We went >> > > around discussing this a long while back and felt that term was >> > > the clearest, despite no term being perfect. >> > >> > No, I don' hold a specific grudge about that word. I do have my >> > issues with finding a name for what we need to describe. I also >> > think we lack catchy terminology in general. Like "flattr a thing" >> > can easily be used in any context. Would be gread if we had a >> > "snowdrift a project" equivalent that made sense and was catchy. >> > >> > Similarly Donor, Patron and Supporter all fall short of what we >> > need. First: we need something that can be used consistently in any >> > context. Second: all those terms suggest roles that totally miss our >> > network effect angle, and in general any tie to our system >> > specifically. >> >> To summarize, patron is the best we have, but something else might be >> better. Patron can certainly be used in any context; whatever else a >> "snowdrifter" is, they will always be a patron, too. But it might be >> an added bonus to make up a word to fit the description, "a patron who >> matches the contributions of all other patrons, and who is matched by >> them". >> >> (A web and spiders comes to mind, though I doubt that's what we want.) >> >> I think we should either stick with patron and use it consistently, or >> hash out a better word now. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Design mailing list >> Design@lists.snowdrift.coop >> https://lists.snowdrift.coop/mailman/listinfo/design >> >> >
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