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Re: Brickfair is official....
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lugnet.events
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Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:58:53 GMT
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In lugnet.events, William R. Ward wrote:
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Sounds great. But what’s the deal with the name change? Why does every
brick conference have to have a new name?
I don’t really care what name we used. For years, Brickfest was the standard
name for this event, but now I guess those are only going to be in Portland.
But sooner or later we’re going to run out of unique names for these events!
It seems to me like there is a lot of duplication of effort and unnecessary
competition for all these events. A little more cooperation between event
organizers, starting with a stop to this proliferation of event names, would
be nice.
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The names are proprietary; they are owned by various people. The name BrickFest
is a bit debatable (I think 4 people claim rights to it) but one person commands
$3,000 fee to use it. I figured, “To heck with that, I’ll start my own name and
give $10,000 to charity first. That would be more fair.” And that’s what we’re
doing, and hence the name BrickFair.
Then there’s risk involved. Does Brickworld want to lend us their name just to
watch us fail and mar the BW name? ‘Course not. There’s other reasons I won’t
bore you with.
It’s really not competition. Over the past several months I’ve had great
support from other event participants, past and present.
Todd Webb
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| (...) Well, I think it's pretty darn petty to insist on a $3,000 fee. If Brickfest is off the table, I would hope that we as a community can come up with a name that be used relatively freely. I do agree that certain standards should be maintained, (...) (17 years ago, 16-Oct-07, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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| (...) Sounds great. But what's the deal with the name change? Why does every brick conference have to have a new name? I don't really care what name we used. For years, Brickfest was the standard name for this event, but now I guess those are only (...) (17 years ago, 15-Oct-07, to lugnet.events, FTX)
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