I know that the maker of that cyclekart is looking for more people in houston who want to build and race if you happen to be in the area.

We choose to use it for several reasons some of which are:
* The term seemed to growing in usage and how it was being used described a reasonable chunk of what we were trying to do. I dislike new terms for the sake of new terms, though I am not 100% sure that is the case here, and it would have been going against how the terminology seemed to be evolving.
* Workshop and similar words invoked images of a for profit business(Tx/Rx is a non-profit).
* Workshop correctly invoked thoughts of metal working, wood working, CNCs, but did not invoke thoughts of programming, soldering, circuit design, or a tight knit community. At least to the small number of people I asked when we were trying to decide what we would call ourselves.

> I would be willing to bet How much are you willing to bet, what odds? I am the current president at Tx/Rx and I know that we have not received any grants from the US army or DoD and finding out that they have been anonymously donating would be worth losing some money over.

I am will to put $1,000 to your $10 that Tx/Rx does not take owner ship of intellectual property produced in its facilities or in its operations by default. Fair warning, I am the current President of Tx/Rx and helped come up with our policies on intellectual property.