Probably don’t update on this too much, but when I hear “Berkeley Genomics Project”, it sounds to me like a project that’s affiliated with UC Berkeley (which it seems like you guys are not). Might be worth keeping in mind, in that some people might be misled by the name.
Ok, thanks for noting. Right, we’re not affiliated—just located in Berkeley. (I’m not sure I believe people will commonly be misled thus, and, I mean, UC Berkeley doesn’t own the city, but will keep an eye out.)
(In theory I’m open to better names, though it’s a bit late for that and also probably doesn’t matter all that much. An early candidate in my head was “The Demeter Project” or something like that; I felt it wasn’t transparent enough. Another sort of candidate was “Procreative Liberty Institute” or similar, though this is ambiguous with reproductive freedom (though there is real ideological overlap). Something like “Genomic Emancipation/Liberty org/project” could work. Someone suggested Berkeley Genomics Institute as sounding more “serious”, and I agreed, except that BGI is already a genomics acronym.)
I also kinda thought this. I actually thought it sounded sufficiently academic that I didn’t realize at first it was your org, instead of some other thing you were supporting.
Probably don’t update on this too much, but when I hear “Berkeley Genomics Project”, it sounds to me like a project that’s affiliated with UC Berkeley (which it seems like you guys are not). Might be worth keeping in mind, in that some people might be misled by the name.
Ok, thanks for noting. Right, we’re not affiliated—just located in Berkeley. (I’m not sure I believe people will commonly be misled thus, and, I mean, UC Berkeley doesn’t own the city, but will keep an eye out.)
(In theory I’m open to better names, though it’s a bit late for that and also probably doesn’t matter all that much. An early candidate in my head was “The Demeter Project” or something like that; I felt it wasn’t transparent enough. Another sort of candidate was “Procreative Liberty Institute” or similar, though this is ambiguous with reproductive freedom (though there is real ideological overlap). Something like “Genomic Emancipation/Liberty org/project” could work. Someone suggested Berkeley Genomics Institute as sounding more “serious”, and I agreed, except that BGI is already a genomics acronym.)
I also kinda thought this. I actually thought it sounded sufficiently academic that I didn’t realize at first it was your org, instead of some other thing you were supporting.