X-Message-Number: 23869 Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 02:04:56 -0700 Subject: FDGD name, mission, proto-planning From: Kennita Watson <> Hi, all -- Between sessions of gathering all the Cryonet input on the Frozen Dead Guy Days project (69 Word pages), I spent a while thinking about possible names for an organization that would handle PR for something like FDGD. When I tried to think of some alternatives to ELF ("Extended Life Foundation", as suggested by Mike Read), I came up with PICKLE -- Popularizing Increased Cryonics Knowledge and Life Extension CIRCLE -- Circulating Information Regarding Cryonics and Life Extension CLEAN -- Cryonics and Life Extension Activism Network ICICLE -- Involving Communities In Cryonics and Life Extension and, from email: The Cryonics Consortium The Cryonactivists Anyone who wants to offer other names, feel free. As a placeholder for whatever name is finally chosen, How about "Project Reframe" -- as in reframing the public's perception of cryonics (possible, affordable, desirable, ethical...)? The goal of Project Reframe is to reshape the public's perception of cryonics (and related life-extending technologies) through face-to-face contact and print and other media. Project Reframe's initial project in pursuit of that goal is the planning and execution of a presence at the March 2005 Frozen Dead Guy Days festival in Nederland, CO. I'm going back to consolidate, categorize, and further filter the input I've gotten so far. I hope to be back with a progress report in a couple of weeks, depending how snowed under I get with my Press Release and Marketing Plan homework, and with reading my Project Management book. Live long and prosper, Kennita -- Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our minds. -- Bob Marley, "Redemption Song" Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23869