Time to cast a vote for club name

[slngsht]

All, I went through the messages on this forum and se7ens mailing list, and these were the ones that seemed to come up more than once.



Thanks all for a healthy participation. If you know of one that was discussed alot that I missed, let me know ASAP, and I'll add it.



A couple of the choices can have differernt variants. For example, USA7s or USA Sevens club, or a few varieties of the "Seven Inspired" names.



Also, keep in mind that the club name and website URL don't have to be the same. USA7s is an easy address, and I think we should continue to use it (perhaps in addition to another URL for the club name), regardless of what name we pick for the club.



I'll let this poll run for a couple of days. Hopefully we'll have a front runner by then.



I'm off to draft bylaws based on what I've seen from other club sites...

[slngsht]

I guess it would help if permissions were turned on so people could vote http://www.usa7s.com/aspnetforum/images/emoticons/blush5.gif



It should work now.

[Al Navarro]

Al Navarro throws in his 2 pence.



First, I wanted address my correspondence with Mr. Drake, the marketing guy at Cat UK.



While I don't want to cut and paste from our e-dialog, I will say that he was very responsive, nice, and seemed to be fine with our appropriation of the logo for our placeholder 7-7-7 "Dragon's Tail" icon. I wanted to check with them on usage, out of respect and to keep the lines of communication open.



From what I gather, the factory POV on fan sites and clubs who use the name seems to be pretty broad...if the site is non-profit, innoffensive and has some relevance to Caterhams (which this site and club does!), they seem to be open to allowing usage. That said, they have asked for logos to be changed and/or removed in the past.



I'd prefer to start off on the right foot and not be asked to change things down the line.

[Al Navarro]

That last one was just one pence. Here's the second.



Regarding the name itself, I would very much like to have some reference to Sevens. I think Clubman is a bit too far afield, especially for us folks here in the USA.



I have a fondness for:



"United Sevens of America" with a shorthand of USA7s"



If necessary, I would go to "United Se7ens of America".



Upon further consideration, while I like the whole "inspired" thing...does that leave out original S1 folks? (Not that there seem to be that many chiming in here.)



I'm going to write a bit on the Club thread, so you may want to switch channels now.



http://www.usa7s.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=154

[Al Navarro]

PLEASE CAST YOUR VOTE, IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.



We definitely have more than 20 something people here.

[Al Navarro]

I wanted to post here just to remind folks to vote.