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And the winning room theme is…

The winning room theme this year is types of cake (battenberg, sponge, cheesecake, birthday…).

The full results are:

  • Types of cake (battenberg, sponge, cheesecake, birthday…) – 14 votes
  • Our 5th birthday party (Pass The Parcel, The Hokey Cokey, Jelly & Ice…) – 6 Votes
  • Around Bletchley Park (Bombe, Lorenz, Enigma, Colossus, Hut 11a…) – 4 votes

Thanks to everyone who voted, we will now create the room name signs.

See you at BarCamp Bournemouth 5

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Vote for room names theme

As is tradition we will be naming the rooms after a theme and took suggestions via our twitter account.

Please visit http://doodle.com/6r4dmpgup74ck62b and choose your favorite, the room names will be named after the most popular theme. Voting closes Thursday evening.

The options you can vote on are:

  • Our 5th birthday party (Pass The Parcel, The Hokey Cokey, Jelly & Ice…)
  • Types of cake (battenberg, sponge, cheesecake, birthday…)
  • Around Bletchley Park (Bombe, Lorenz, Enigma, Colossus, Hut 11a…)

Many thanks to everyone who suggested themes.

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Room Names Theme Vote – The Results

And the winning theme is…….

pauses for dramatic effect……

Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock

I will now create the room signs.

The voting started of scattered with 1 vote each for most of the entries except for “Turing Award winners” which didn’t look like it would ever get a vote and ended with just 1 vote. Then after a short while all options (except turing) gained a little popularity until a leader appeared in the form of “Episode names from Look Around You” and for most of the vote it looked like it would be the winner. Then out of nowhere “Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock” gained popularity and took the lead to become the winner. The final results are:

  • Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock – 8 Votes
  • Episode names from Look Around You? (Water, Maths, Sodium, Germs, Ghosts, Music, Iron, Brain, etc.) – 7 Votes
  • Text Editors (Emacs, vim, Eclipse, TextMate, SublimeText, Notepad++, BBEdit, etc) – 4 Votes
  • Android Releases (Cupcake, Donut, Gingerbread etc) – 4 Votes
  • Big Bang Theory (The TV show) – 3 Votes
  • IT Legends (Gates, Jobs, Berners-Lee etc) – 3 Votes
  • Turing Award winners. (Hamming, Knuth, Hoare, Sutherland, Thomson & Ritchie) – 1 Vote

Thanks to everyone who suggested the themes and many thanks to those who voted.