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How about "Lets, explore it!"

peterwhite said:

Liking all the suggestions so far! What about "Together, we explore"? This leaves unmanned exploration open, and focuses upon collaboration around the world, combining the best of both, whilst keeping a serious angle. Feedback?

I like this very much. "Together, we explore"

It is fun to say and sounds collaborative and motivating.

We never did decide on one, it seems.

If we wanted to sort this out soonish, there is a poll facility buit into Word Press that either Rizwan or myself could use to set up a poll.  The big issue would be choosing the candidate mottos to vote from.  There are a few here but we may want more.

Maybe we could put something on /r/tothemoon to gather ideas?  I get the impression that there are lurkers there who may want to make suggestions who are not active on these forums.

I'd like to propose another candidate: "Space exploration, by anyone, for everyone", or some variation along those lines.

Also, Rocket used the phrase "Upward bound" in one of his promotional renders which I thought had a nice ring to it (although there's nothing in it to suggest collaborativeness – "Upward bound, together?".

If we did decide to run a vote on this soonish using Reddit to gather ideas and a WP poll to count the votes, it would be a good thing to put on our blog/twitter/facebook to increase traffic on those channels.

Post edited 6:43 am – December 19, 2009 by Luke Maurits

Cool stuff.

Let's hold off on it just for now, though.  I'd like to make this a fairly coordinated event (to get some practice with our infrastructure if nothing else).  We should make a blog post announcing a Motto Competition and lay down some basic ground rules and explanations.  The blog entry will link to the /r/tothemoon submission for ideas, and the /r/tothemoon submission will point to the blog.  We should have tweets and FB updates shortly after this goes up.

Only Rizwan has access to Twitter at the moment, as far as I know, so we'll have to coordinate this with him.

Also, it would probably be good if the very first post to our blog was a bit more of a "Welcome to the CSTART blog" kind of thing than the motto competition.  I will write something along these lines later today for people to look over quickly and then post it (EDIT: See this thread for a proposed first entry).  Hopefully we can get the motto thing up and running a day or two after that.

Now might be a good time to start discussing rules for the competition, if we want any.  A maximum number of words might be a good rule.

Draft blog announcement:

CSTART needs a motto and in the spirit of our collaborative nature we are going to let the community decide.  Thus, CSTART announces its Motto Selection Competition, which opens today!  This is your chance to leave a mark on the face of CSTART which could last for decades!

The competition will be conducted using a combination of our /r/tothemoon subreddit and a poll on this blog.  There are two phases of the competition:

The candidate selection phase, which begins now and lasts until [TIMEDATE]: During this phase, anybody and everybody can suggest a motto by making a post to this thread on our subreddit.  The only restriction is that your motto must be 12 words or less.  In addition to suggesting mottos, it is important that you upvote the mottos you like (and downvote the trolls!).  This will be important for…

The motto selection phase, which will begin on [TIMEDATE] and last until [TIMEDATE]: During this phase, the [CANDIDATECOUNT] most upvoted submissions to the Reddit thread will be made the choices for a poll entry in this blog.  The entry which receives the most votes before the closing date will be adopted as the official CSTART motto!

So what are you waiting for?  Post your motto ideas to the Reddit thread now!