Yuri’s Night Sticker
OpenGoddard!
As many of you know, we’ve been working on a bumper sticker for OpenGoddard and have been wrestling with what it should say, what it should look like, etc.
In this process, we reminded ourselves that OpenGoddard is about creating a new environment of inspiration and excitement around the work we do here. The message that we’re sending is that every single one of us has a vital role to play in this effort. We all contribute in our own ways, in our own area of expertise!
[Here's] our current iteration:
Please take a look and let me know what you think! FYI, we’re planning on having these available at Yuri’s Night, and I want to have something that draws people to the website to learn about what we’re up to. All comments are welcome – send them to me by COB this Thursday!
Rivers
5 comments
We Rock for Space Rocks!
or…
We Stop for Space Rocks!
Yuck. Too generic and pushy.
The new slogan, even though a bit vague and generic, makes you think about the role you play (at work or in life).
If your feeling defensive, then hey, isn’t that what we’re trying to do? Aren’t we (open goddard) trying to get people excited and motivated about what they do? That can’t happen without answering the tough questions, such as “what role do you play?” Think about it.
Anyway, I like it - it’s different (in my opinion good) and requires you to think.
Neerav
Going back to the question Leigh asked (on email):
Who is the audience? Going farther, what’s the purpose?
Personally, I’m not a fan of “what role do you play?” I agree that it’s an excellent question, and one that everyone should think about, but I’m not sure it’s the right way to get people interested in OpenGoddard. Before we can start asking people hard questions, we have to make sure that they’re listening — I’m afraid that this question on a bumper sticker will cause people to not listen, at which point the dialogue stops.
So, I shall axiomatically state two goals of the bumper sticker (and please, feel free to criticize):
(1) Get people at Goddard interested in OG and in participating in the larger discussion (which includes the hard questions)
(2) Get people outside of Goddard to think positively about Goddard, NASA, and Space (yes, this is a tall order).
Excellent points Stephen! Thanks.
I also do not like “what role do you play?” as a slogan for same reasons. It is not NASA and/or GSFC specific either.
Also, if any message is going to be for Open Goddard, a good number of Open Goddard members should agree to have it as their slogan. This way members feel as part of the group and respect the majority’s vote as their choice, as opposed to feeling that someone (or a few members) pulled out their favorite slogan from their hat last minute and are trying to push it forward. Although I was not a big fan of “We - Mission Success” either, I respect that choice much more as we talked about it and reached an agreement on it during an OG meeting. We could have easily collected a list of suggested slogans satisfying goals that Stephen mentions, set up a poll for members, and collected votes, weeks ago. The results would have been obtained much quicker and deterministically. Having a poll and collecting the results is easy. Accepting the final verdict and implementing it, even if it is against few key members’ choice is hard! We need to decide how “Open” we are going to be as a “Group”.
If some members would really really like to have “What role do you play” for Yuri’s night, I suggest removing the opengoddard.com link from it, unless majority of OG members like to have the same slogan.
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